Rituals of Freedom: Libertarian Themes in Early Confucianism - Softcover

Long, Roderick T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692732225 ISBN 13: 9780692732229

Publisher: Molinari Institute, The, 2016

Synopsis

When scholars look for anticipations of libertarian ideas in early Chinese thought, attention usually focuses not on the Confucians, but on the Taoists. But in their account of spontaneously evolving social norms, their understanding of the price system, their penchant for public-choice analysis, their enthusiasm for entrepreneurship, their preference for noncoercive interpersonal relations, their call for a laissez-faire economic policy, and their rejection of Taoist primitivism, the Confucians show themselves to be the true precursors of modern libertarianism.

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About the Author

Roderick T. Long (A.B. Harvard, 1985; Ph.D. Cornell, 1992) is professor of philosophy at Auburn University, president of the Molinari Institute, editor of the Molinari Review, and senior fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Molinari Institute, The
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692732225
• ISBN 13: 9780692732229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122