Human Choice and Historical Inevitability

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Antony G. N. Flew

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This paper by Antony Flew offers a critique of Karl Popper’s The Poverty of Historicism as well as E.H. Carr’s What is History?

Volume 5, Number 4 (1981)

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Flew, Antony. “Human Choice and Historical Inevitability.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 5, No. 4 (1981): 345–356.

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