Tibor Machan engages in some conjectural history to imagine how the world might be different had government never intervened to protect the environment but rather left all matters to property owners to sort out.
Tibor R. Machan
Tibor R. Machan (1939 - 2016) was a Hoover research fellow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and held the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University.
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Most of the “laws” we follow day to day are not enforced by government at all, writes Tibor Machan.
In this note I will argue that social contract theories aimed at establishing norms for personal and community life are inadequate. Briefly, I show that in Kant and Rawls the alleged contractual basis...
