Tibor R. Machan
Tibor Richard Machan was a Hungarian-American philosopher. A professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, Machan held the R. C.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Budapest
- Educated at
- New York UniversityUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraClaremont McKenna College
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Trending topics shown first"While individualism was once widely hailed in Britain and especially the United States, today it is deemed amoral and heartless. The individualist viewpoint is unable to promise honestly that everyone…"
"If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should…"
"Without a market in which allocations can be made in obedience to the law of supply and demand, it is difficult or impossible to funnel resources with respect to actual human preferences and goals."
"To Marx any talk of rights possessed by people equally, unalienably, absolutely, and universally would have to await the communist epoch when all persons will have reached a common nature, total equal…"
"oercive human interactions destructive, even where the coercion is urged from honorable motives, and advocates confining the use of physical force in human relations to instances of the administration…"
"This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one’s happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It’s…"
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1939
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Birth2016
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