By Floyd Arthur Harper
ISBN-10: 1610160223
ISBN-13: 9781610160223
F.A. Harper was once a pacesetter within the libertarian move from the Fifties and onward. this is his early manifesto (1949), during which he unearths a worldly figuring out of unfastened markets and freedom yet had now not but, as he later did, come round thoroughly to the Rothbardian view at the chances of society with no the kingdom. still, this can be an incredible and gorgeous booklet that exhibits Harper for the highbrow powerhouse that he actually was once.
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He wants to get ahead and to improve his personal abilities. The opportunity to do so is the source of his happiness, and that is why liberty and the liberal design of social conduct are so essential to human happiness. The human urge for liberty and the will to be free cannot be cast off by a simple vow or by any other similar means, because these qualities are fixed into his nature as firmly as is the loyalty of the bee to his colony. It would take a long period of biological change to fix into the human form of life the qualities found in the social insects, even if such a change were desired.
Man's higher order of intelligence and foresight has codified into written and unwritten law a restraint from short-sighted fulfillment of his wants by marauding. He has established privateness of property, and stabilization of the rights of its possession. Under the intellectual and moral code of advanced forms of human society, man acts differently from these "lower animals"; and he can continue to live in an advancing society only so long as that code of conduct is not undermined and allowed to fall.
Liberty is not in conflict with charity. More accurately, charity is possible and can reach large proportions only under liberty; and under liberty, "need" for it would probably be greatly reduced. CHAPTER FIVE RULES OF CONDUCT IN A LIBERAL SOCIETY LIBERTY HAS BEEN DEFINED in this discussion as a strictly individual maUer. " All who favor liberty, therefore, must favor the liberal society. They must favor "liberalism" (1iber = free; al = pertaining to; ism = a doctrine or practice). The structure of a liberal society is that which promises to preserve the greatest possible degree of liberty among those living in that society.