19 Facts About Tibor Machan

Tibor Richard Machan was a Hungarian-American philosopher.

Tibor Machan 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.

Tibor Machan was, until spring 2015, senior contributing editor at The Daily Bell.

Tibor Machan was senior fellow at the Heartland Institute in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Tibor Machan rejected any division of libertarianism into left wing and right wing.

Tibor Machan held that, by its nature, libertarianism is about political liberty for all individuals to do whatever is peaceful and non-aggressive.

Tibor Machan's father hired a smuggler to get him out of Hungary when he was 14 years of age and he came to the United States three years later, in 1956.

Tibor Machan took his Masters of Arts in philosophy at New York University from 1965 to 1966, and his Ph.

Tibor Machan taught as an assistant professor of philosophy at California State University, Bakersfield from 1970 to 1972.

Tibor Machan edited Reason for two years and was the editor of Reason Papers, an annual journal of interdisciplinary normative studies, for 25 years.

Tibor Machan lectured in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, Budapest, Hungary, Prague, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Republic of Georgia, Armenia, and Latin America on business ethics and political philosophy.

Tibor Machan sat on the advisory boards for several foundations and think tanks, and served on the founding Board of the Jacob J Javits Graduate Fellowship Program of the US Department of Education.

Tibor Machan was an adviser to Freedom Communications, Inc on libertarian issues from 1996 to 2014.

Tibor Machan wrote a memoir, The Man Without a Hobby: Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist.

Tibor Machan defended the arguments of Ayn Rand for ethical egoism, and wrote frequently on business ethics, a field in which he deployed a neo-Aristotelian ethical stance whereby commercial and business conduct gain their moral standing by constituting extensions of the virtues of productivity and prudence.

Tibor Machan argued that the field presupposes the institution of the right to private property in the works, The Business of Commerce, Examining an Honorable Profession, and A Primer on Business Ethics, both with James Chesher, and The Morality of Business, A Profession of Human Wealth Care.

Tibor Machan was a skeptic as to whether governments are able to help with global warming and whether human beings have made significant contributions to climate change.

On 1 May 2011, Tibor Machan was featured in a three-hour interview on C-Span 2's In Depth program as its selection of an author from the Western United States of America.

Tibor Machan has argued in a 2008 article that unilateral American intervention has done more harm than good.