Tibor R. Machan
| Tibor R. Machan | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born |
18 March 1939 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 24 March 2016 (aged 77) Silverado Canyon, California |
| Nationality | Hungarian American |
| Alma mater |
UC Santa Barbara (PhD 1971) New York University (MA 1966) Claremont McKenna College (BA 1965) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Libertarianism |
|
Influences
|
|
Tibor Richard Machan (/ˈtiːbɔːr məˈkæn/; 18 March 1939 – 24 March 2016) was a Hungarian-American philosopher. A professor emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, Machan held the R. C. Hoiles Chair of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California until December 31, 2014.
He was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a research fellow at the Independent Institute, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and an adjunct faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Machan was a syndicated and freelance columnist; author of more than one hundred scholarly papers and more than forty books, among them Why is Everyone Else Wrong? (Springer, 2008). He was, until spring 2015, senior contributing editor at The Daily Bell. He was senior fellow at the Heartland Institute in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Machan rejected any division of libertarianism into left wing and right wing. He held that, by its nature, libertarianism is about political liberty for all individuals to do whatever is peaceful and non-aggressive. Machan was a minarchist.
...
Wikipedia