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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.

Articles

A Problem With Aristotle’s Ethical Essentialism

03/28/2010 Libertarian Papers Tibor R. Machan

This discussion is motivated by both my sympathy with Aristotle's meta-physics and my problems with certain elements of his ethics.

Discussion Note: Contemporary Philosophy Versus the Free Society

11/16/2010 Libertarian Papers Tibor R. Machan

Some would have it that we can have a philosophy of freedom without, well, a philosophy.

Backing the Founders: The Case for Unalienable Individual Rights

12/17/2010 Libertarian Papers Tibor R. Machan

In this discussion I want to briefly reflect upon remarks from the Declaration of Independence.

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The Moral Case for the Free Market Economy

06/15/1988 Tibor R. Machan

Machan argues that it is inappropriate to regard the mechanistic viewpoint as the scientific way of looking at human life. Machan proposes that we reject this as our model of proper science which is, after all, extrapolated from one of the natural

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The Austrian Theory of Subjective Value: A Philosopher’s View

06/16/2005 Tibor R. Machan

Recorded at the Mises Institute on 15 June 2005.

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