To commemorate the 50th anniversary of F. A. Hayek’s Nobel Prize in Economics (1974), this week Lib er tar i an ism .org will republish Hayek’s Nobel Address and Lecture (delivered December 10 and 11, 1974).

Libertarianism is rooted, historically and philosophically, in the liberalism of the Enlightenment.But although it belongs to an intellectual tradition dating back centuries, libertarianism embraces a vision of political liberty which is, even today, revolutionary.

Jul 29, 2019 · Liberty made great progress over hundreds of years, but the first half of the 20th century saw it in retreat. It was a time of savage war, oppression, genocide, protectionism, socialism, fascism—a time when humanity experienced the awful power of …

Paul Meany started working as the intellectual history editor at Lib er tar i an ism .org in 2019. His work focuses on liberty before liberalism, uncovering how ancient and medieval ideas influenced our modern conceptions of rights, liberty, and autonomy.

The word liberalism refers to a distinctive set of beliefs and an associated political movement that appeared in the early 19th century.The first recorded occurrence of the term was in Spain in 1823 when the term liberales, or freedom lovers, was used to describe supporters of the constitutional regime established after the Napoleonic wars.(The liberals’ opponents, supporters of the absolute ...

May 21, 2021 · During the Cold War, many libertarians believed the Democratic Party was insufficiently heedful of the threat to human liberty posed by communism—and by the latter months of 1971, libertarians had little reason to be enamored with their prospects in the Republican Party under President Richard Nixon.The Vietnam War dragged on, as did the draft, as the government forced young men to go fight ...

Mar 20, 2020 · Mill opens On Liberty by explaining the nature of liberty versus authority. Traditionally, liberty was defined as “the protection against the tyranny of political rulers” (Mill 2015, p. 5) To achieve liberty, limits on state authority ought to be imposed, which would eventually lead to those in power becoming more akin to tenants than perpetual rulers.

Jan 15, 1997 · Both the two main lines of Western thought, the Greek and the Judeo- Christian, contributed to the development of freedom. According to the Old Testament, the people of Israel lived without a king or any other coercive authority, governing themselves not by force but by their mutual adherence to their covenant with God.

Aug 28, 2012 · As a political philosophy, libertarianism, in the broadest sense of the term, places liberty first. The role of the state is to protect the liberty of its citizens and its citizens must respect the rights of each other.

Aug 15, 2008 · Although Isaiah Berlin is often credited with distinguishing positive from negative liberty, this view was, in fact, put forward in the 19th century by, among others, the English political philosopher T. H. Green, who provided a particularly cogent analysis of what positive liberty, or freedom, implies.