ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Introductions and FAQs > Philosophy
- Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies
Source: Stephen Downes
Country: Canada
- A good introduction to logic. We all need it to defend our positions!
- Persons, Property, and Profits
Source: Institute for Humane Studies
Author: Tom G. Palmer
City: Fairfax, State: VA, Country: United States
- Bibliographic essay exploring the derivation of the concept of property from the idea of self-ownership.
- Aristotle, Human Rights, and Classical Liberal Ethical Theory
Source: Institute for Humane Studies
Author: Henry Veatch
City: Fairfax, State: VA, Country: United States
- Review of Douglas Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl's "Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order."
- Epicureanism, 2,300 Years Later
Source: The Philosophy Garden
Author: Erik Anderson
Country: United States
E-mail: ea@c-zone.net
- Fully marked up in HTML, this "reconstruction of an ancient philosophy in a modern context" provides an excellent overview of Epicureanism in general, as well as its implications for modernity. Includes a section on Epicurean politics, which are libertarian, of course.
- TOC Study Guide: Philosophy of Mathematics
Source: The Objectivist Center
Author: David S. Ross
Country: United States
E-mail: toc@objectivistcenter.org
- An overview of mathematics and its grounding in epistemology from the objectivist viewpoint. Examines the "crises" in mathematics resulting from faulty philosophical grounding. Available as a pamphlet, or online in html or pdf format.
- A Saint Said
Source: David D. Friedman
Author: David D. Friedman
Country: United States
E-mail: DDFr@best.com
- This poem offers a stunning insight: idealism and authoritarianism are merely two sides of the same coin. Absolutely fabulous; it should be required reading for any person running for political office.
- Foundations of a Free Society
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Nathaniel Branden
Country: United States
E-mail: NathanielBranden@compuserve.com
- "My own conviction is that philosophical education is required, moral education is required, psychological education is required, and that no free society can last without an appropriate philosophy and supporting culture."
- The Spiritual Basis of Liberty
Source: The Holy Instant Christian Church
Author: Rev. Brian Eenigenburg
Country: United States
E-mail: holy_instant@msn.com
- "A little bit of government is helpful
and guided by your spirit. But a government that does not enhance your freedom cannot be tolerated by your spirit, true or false?" The Right Reverend presents a spiritual but non-denominational theory of the importance and nature of liberty.
- Equal Human Worth? A Critique of Contemporary Egalitarianism
Source: Faithquest
Author: Pojman
Country: United States
- An essay on the problems of egalitarianism.
- TOC Study Guide: Literary Theory
Source: The Objectivist Center
Author: Stephen Cox
Country: United States
E-mail: toc@objectivistcenter.org
- A brief introduction to literary theory from Aristotle onward, written from an objectivist perspective. Available in pamphlet form, or online in html.
- TOC Study Guide: Ancient Greek Philosophy
Source: The Objectivist Center
Author: George Brakas
Country: United States
E-mail: toc@objectivistcenter.org
- A brief introduction to the ancient Greek philosophers, written from an objectivist perspective. Available in pamphlet, or online in html or pdf format.
- TOC Study Guide: Political Philosophy
Source: The Objectivist Center
Author: Fred D. Miller, Jr.
Country: United States
E-mail: toc@objectivistcenter.org
- Political philosophy defined and elaborated upon from an objectivist perspective. Available in pamphlet, or online in html or pdf format.
- Taoism and Libertarianism
Source: Talamasca
Author: Wolf Logan
Country: United States
E-mail: umuhk@talamasca.org
- Would Lao-Tzu be a Libertarian? A comparison of Taoism and Libertarianism.
- Liberalism and the Common Good: A Hayekian Perspective on Communitarianism
Source: The Independent Review
Author: Linda C. Raeder
Country: United States
E-mail: independent@free-market.net
- "The recent attack on modern liberalism by 'communitarianism' has caught the attention of many political theorists. The insights of F. A. Hayek prove especially helpful in understanding what is at stake in the communitarian/liberal debate." Available for download in PDF.
- The Legacy of Spencer Heath
Source: Journal of Socionomics
Author: Alvin Lowi
Country: United States
E-mail: alowi@earthlink.net
- A brief description of Spencer Health's science of socionomy.
- Mot en ny radiklaism (Toward a New Radicalism)
Source: MARKNADSKRAFTEN
Author: Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Country: United States
E-mail: CMS@free-market.net
- Sciabarra examines the basis for a new radical vision: Dialectical Libertarianism. In Swedish.
- Deconstructing 'Positive Freedom'
Source: Jason Soon
Author: Jason Soon
City: Sydney, Country: Australia
- The author discusses the difference between libertarian negative freedom and the Marxist conception of positive freedom. He argues that attempts to discover people's "real" preferences ultimately leads to more state power rather than less.
- Human Nature, Anarchy, and Capitalism
Source: Liberty Journal
Author: Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D.
Country: United States
- Dr. Ross defends capitalism and rejects the idea that people are inherently evil. Several quotes and ideas from classical liberals support his case.
- Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism
Source: Liberty Journal
Author: Robert Nozick
Country: United States
- Article deals with the psychological disdain intellectuals feel towards a society which does not "fairly" value their contributions.
- Two Arguments for Libertarianism
Source: Jason Soon
Author: Jason Soon
Country: Australia
- A good summary of two alternate, non-deontological, arguments for libertarianism. (4/99)
- Philosophy and The Insider
Source: Britannica.Com
Country: United States
- What do the ideas of Marcuse have to do with today's journalistic attitudes toward, say, tobacco litigation? More than you might think. An interview with 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman.
- The Good Life
Source: Quackgrass Press
Author: Michael Miller
Country: Canada
- As Aristotle noted, every art aims at some good, it has some purpose. Morality is the master method by which you guide all your choices and actions; it is your art of living. What is it to be its aim? What is to be the purpose of morality?
- Nietzsche's Antipolitique
Source: Promethea
Author: Darios
Country: Canada
- An essay on Nietzsche's "fundamental concept of the will-to-power as a guide to make sense of his anti-political views, along the way justifying Nietzsche as a precursor of Prometheanism."
- On Conformity
Source: Promethea
Author: Phoenix
Country: Canada
- The Promethean perspective on conformity -- its definition, advantages and disadvantages, and the requirements that it imposes on thought and activity.
- Social justice, rights and isolationism
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Walter Block
Country: United States
- Phrases like "social justice" come heavily laden with meaning that is supposed to anoint redistributionism and interventionism. (5/31/00)
- The Inspiration of Prometheus
Source: Promethea
Author: Colin Patrick Barth
Country: United States
- The Greek myth of Prometheus and Heracles, and how it characterizes and defines the Promethean philosophy.
- The Essence of a Promethean
Source: Promethea
Author: Colin Patrick Barth
Country: United States
- "A Promethean is defined by devotion to the improvement of human life." How students of the Promethean philosophy pursue the advancement of themselves and other individuals.
- Violence and the State
Source: Promethea
Author: Colin Patrick Barth
Country: United States
- The Prometheans take on Franz Fanon and his notion that the force and violence of revolution can successfully counter the force and violence of the state.
- Introduction to the philosophy of liberty
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: Ken Schoolland, Lux Lucre
Country: United States
- A ten-minute animated introduction to the philosophy of liberty and self-ownership. Macromedia Flash.
- The new fascism
Source: Washington Times
Author: Richard Rahn
Country: United States
- "While most of the media and political class refer to communism and socialism as leftist ideologies and Nazism and fascism as ideologies of the far right, these ideologies are merely different forms of statism ... The true political and economic dichotomy is statism vs. libertarianism." (05/16/02)
- The thought of Robert Nozick
Source: R. N. Johnson
Country: United States
- A summary of Robert Nozick's political philosophy.
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