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Tibor Richard Machan (; born 18 March 1939) is 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 has been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and an adjunct faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.〔(Libertarianism.org (Cato Institute) Tibor Machan )〕 Machan is a syndicated and freelance columnist; author of more than one hundred scholarly papers and more than forty books, among them the recent ''Why is Everyone Else Wrong?'' (Springer, 2008). He is senior contributing editor at ''The Daily Bell''. Though he can be broadly classified as a libertarian on many important issues, Machan rejects any division of libertarianism into ''left wing'' and ''right wing''. He holds that, by its nature, libertarianism is about political liberty for all individuals to do whatever is peaceful and non-aggressive. Machan is a minarchist. ==Life== Machan was born in Budapest. 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. By 1965, Machan graduated Claremont McKenna College (then Claremont Men's College). He took his Masters of Arts in Philosophy at New York University from 1965 to 1966, and his Ph.D in Philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara, 1966–1971.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Tibor R. Machan: Curriculum Vitae )〕 In 1970, with Robert W. Poole, Jr. and Manuel Klausner, he purchased ''Reason'' magazine, which has since become the leading libertarian periodical in America. Machan edited ''Reason'' for two years and was the editor of ''Reason Papers'', an annual journal of interdisciplinary normative studies, for 25 years. He was a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1992–1993 and has taught at universities in California, New York, Switzerland, and Alabama. He has 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. He sits 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 U. S. Department of Education. Machan was selected as the 2003 President of the American Society for Value Inquiry, and delivered the presidential address on December 29, 2002, in Philadelphia, at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, titled "Aristotle & Business." He was on the board of the Association for Private Enterprise Education for several terms. Machan was an adviser to Freedom Communications, Inc. on libertarian issues. from 1996 to 2014. Machan has written a memoir, ''The Man Without a Hobby: Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist'' (Hamilton Books, 2004; 2nd edition 2012). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tibor R. Machan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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