| 来源类型 | Book
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| Skepticism and Freedom |
| Richard Epstein
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| 发表日期 | 2003-06-01
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| 出版年 | 2003
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Many of the modern attacks on the classical liberal system seek to undermine the moral, conceptual, cognitive, and psychological foundations on which it rests. Richard Epstein rises to this challenge by carefully rebutting each of these objections in turn. For instance, Epstein demonstrates how our inability to judge the preferences of others means we should respect their liberty of choice regarding their own lives. And he points out the flaws in behavioral economic arguments which, overlooking strong evolutionary pressures, claim that individual preferences are unstable and that people are unable to adopt rational means to achieve their own ends. Freedom, Epstein ultimately shows, depends upon a skepticism that rightly shuns making judgments about what is best for individuals, but that also avoids the relativistic traps that all judgments about our political institutions have equal worth.
Richard A. Epstein is a University of Chicago law professor. |
| 主题 | Society and Culture
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| 标签 | Bradley Lecture Series
; Philosophy
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/skepticism-and-freedom-2/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/208625
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Richard Epstein. Skepticism and Freedom. 2003.
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