Tibor R. Machen

Generosity (eBook, ePUB)

Virtue in Civil Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is often assumed that because the contemporary welfare state is generous, its critics must therefore lack generosity, as well as compassion. Tibor R. Machan, a distinguished moral philosopher, demonstrates why that is a mistaken notion. He places generosity among the human virtues and shows why virtue requires moral choice rather than coercion. He argues that generosity can only be cultivated in freedom because there is no virtue in a compulsory act. This book is a valuable contribution to an important and continuing debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cato Institute
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781937184001
• Artikelnr.: 52454599

Autorenporträt

Tibor Machan, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, was smuggled out of Hungary in 1953 when he was 14 and emigrated to the United States in 1956. He is a philosopher, a Hoover Institution research fellow, and a professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. Machan is widely published and is the author of several books on classical liberalism and libertarianism.