This book explores these conflicts and their implications for contemporary liberal and libertarian thought.

... Spencer is or is not a materialist. 913. Walker, Frank Fish, Jr. “British Liberalism—Some Philosophic Origins: The Contribution of Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, Jeremy Bentham and Herbert Spencer.” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford ...

Smith?s Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism, corrects this misrepresentation with careful intellectual surveys of Hume, Smith, Hobbes, Butler, Mandeville, and Hutcheson and their respective contributions to political ...

This book brings together key contributions of recent years, in addition to some brand new pieces. The essays are introduced by a Preface in which Hollander reflects on his past work and reactions to it.

A three-volume examination of the rise of English utilitarianism and its leading proponents, published in 1900.

This book places him in the tradition of classical liberalism, where he belongs—as a disciple of Adam Smith, but even less tolerant of government power than Smith was.

A potent defence of the individual, and a foundational text for political and social Liberalism, 'On Liberty' is a classic of English philosophy.