The First Question of Ethics Is The Rationality of Cooperation
[T]he first question of ethics is why do I not kill you and take your stuff. The ritual of setting aside this question in order to enter into debate has been lost through the ages. And common interest conveniently assumed as the starting point, rather than the necessity of choice between cooperation, parasitism, and predation.…
The Only Means Of Eliminating The State And Constructing Liberty
(north sea libertarian liberty) [T]he only way to eliminate the state, is to eliminate demand for the state. To eliminate demand for the state, we must construct institutions that provide the services of the state, without the free riding endemic to the state. The state provides just these services: …1) an allocation of property and…
The Human Operating System
[S]omething I wrote yesterday helped me clarify my argument on human anti-equalitarianism. – First: with very slight hormonal variation, we are able to reproduce in a distribution (division) of inter-temporal perception, cognition, knowledge and labor. And, that the initial division of perception cognition knowledge and labor began as a reproductive division of labor. – Second,…
Austrian Economics Studies Facilitating Voluntary Exchanges Rather than Forced Transfers
[W]hen we attempt to promote Austrian Economics, we could, if we were intelligent, state that our interests are merely in developing institutions that facilitate voluntary exchanges, rather than mainstream economics, which attempts to maximize involuntary transfers. In other words, we practice moral economics, and mainstream practices immoral economics. It does no good whatsoever for advocates…
The Central Argument To The Origin Of Morality: Cost vs Scarcity
[S]carcity is a universal, unknowable, marginal indifference. It is praxeologicaly non-existent. I cannot know and act on it. Cost is particular, knowable, and decidable because of marginal differences. It is praxeologicaly existential. I can know and act on it.Scarcity is a necessary constraint between states, that need not reduce local transaction costs, but which must…
The Cure for Propaganda – And Western Civilization
(second draft)(important piece) [P]ropaganda is intentionally defective product, produced for the purpose of obtaining power, delivered with intent to persuade by deception, using rhetorical devices including: conflation, loading, framing, overloading, obscurantism, straw-men, outright lying, and dependent upon repetition as a means of creating confirmatory “evidence”, to produce an intuitive rather than rational response. The traditional,…
Morality is a Problem of Cost, Not Scarcity
[S]carcity and Property exist prior to cooperation. However, scarcity is an analytic concept. Humans think in terms of cost, not scarcity. Because scarcity requires knowledge we cannot possess other than through prices/costs. So we cannot know something is scarce any more than we can know something is analytically true. We can only know that it…
Yes, Reforming Austrian Economics Is Necessary
—“Calling Mises pseudoscientific is the typical positivistic criticism to Austrian Economics. It adds nothing. The young Austrian economists who are pupils of Don Lavoie had been working on Popper, Lakatos, Machlup and Hayek for a long time.”—Gabriel Zanotti, Philosophy Professor at Austral University [G]abriel 1) Calling science positivistic (justificationary) is a typical Rothbardian/Misesian misrepresentation of…
Truth Under Propertarianism
(getting very close now) [T]he Question: How do we warranty that we speak the truth, given any subset of properties of reality? Testimonial truth is a promise, a warranty. But a warranty of what? All knowledge is theoretical; and all non-tautological, non-trivial premises and propositions are theoretical. Therefore how to we know our theories can…
Intellectual Property (IP) In Propertarianism
[H]ere is where I end up. And it hasn’t changed much in two years. 1) Trademarking.Yes. It’s a weight and measure. And it’s testable. Violating trademarks is fraudulent. 2) Copyrighting.Possibly – but only if under the model of the creative commons. Meaning free for non commercial use. I don’t care about patents anywhere near as…
Propertarianism’s Testimonial Truth
[T]he Question: How do we warranty that we speak the truth, given any subset of properties of reality? Testimonial truth is a promise, a warranty. But a warranty of what? All knowledge is theoretical; and all non-tautological, non-trivial premises and propositions are theoretical. Therefore how to we know our theories can be warrantied? We can…
Propertarianism and the Purpose of Philosophy
(very important) [T]he value of philosophy is to convert what we learn, into the web (network) of related concepts that we currently USE. (Note that I do not use the word ‘believe’, which is a synonym for justification.) This often requires a great deal of rearranging of our concepts. That which was before subordinate, turns…
The Reason For Western Rates of Development?
POPPER, HAYEK, HOPPE, BROUWER, BRIDGMAN, POINCARÉ – The` Least Wrong Philosophers. [D]ragging Germans and Cosmopolitans out of the well of authoritarianism. For my purposes, Popper and Hayek are just the best thinkers to build upon, because they’re the least wrong. Hoppe isn’t important so much for what he has said but how he has taught…
Methodological Ternary-ism: Physical Instrumentation, Logical Instrumentation, Social Instrumentation
[T]ruth. This word can be translated as the “mind of God”. Because this word is used as if referring to the mind of God. But, this use is a deception in and of itself. There exists no mind to discover, and no truth to discover: it isn’t hidden. The universe lies bare for us all…
Mises’ Position In Intellectual History
MISES POSITION IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY? (reposted from elsewhere) (I think this will blow your mind a little bit.) Mises Human Action as Cosmopolitan Stoicism. [H]e was almost right. If Rothbard and the Rothbardians had not damaged his legacy so severely, he would not be ostracized by the main stream intellectual community. At present any mention…
The Evolution of Cooperation
1) Acquisitiveness: To survive and reproduce, humans must acquire and inventory many categories of resources, and evolved to demonstrate constant acquisitiveness of those resources. 2) Property: The scope of those things they act upon, or choose not to act upon, in anticipation of obtaining as inventory (a store of value), constitute their demonstrated definition of…
Moral Foundations as Property Rights
(a central concept of Propertarianism) [O]f Haidt’s evolutionary origins of moral intuitions, three can be expressed as individual property rights: 1. Care/harm for others, protecting them from harm. (The asset of life and body.) 2. Proportionality/cheating, Justice, treating others in proportion to their actions. (The asset of goods.) 3. Liberty/Oppression, characterizes judgments in terms of…
Neo-Reaction in a Nutshell: We Are Ruled By A Theocracy – An Evil One.
(worth repeating) [T]he central proposition of neo-reaction is that the enlightenment was dangerously optimistic about humans, human nature, and the state; and that as a consequence, society is just as religious as ever it was, with an official state religion of progressivism: the promise of an aristocracy of everyone. It is another “good-news” religion, telling…
The Central Argument: Western Testimonial Truth vs Platonic Truth
(the central argument)( profound) [T]he central argument regarding truth: 1) … is that giving witness to one’s observations, is testable by reproduction of a set of operational definitions. That operational definitions produce the equivalent of names, just as positional numbering provides quantities with names. Such names are insulated from deception, distraction, loading, framing and overloading.…
Mises’ Praxeology As The Failure To Develop Economic Operationalism
(important)(profound) [I] have been working to reform anarcho capitalist arguments by translating them from troublesome Kantian rationalism, into the transparent common language of science: ratio-empiricism. And, at least for the past few months, I’ve been struggling to develop a narrative structure that would allow me to easily demonstrate the solution to the promise of praxeology…
Mises' Praxeology As The Failure To Develop Economic Operationalism
(important)(profound) [I] have been working to reform anarcho capitalist arguments by translating them from troublesome Kantian rationalism, into the transparent common language of science: ratio-empiricism. And, at least for the past few months, I’ve been struggling to develop a narrative structure that would allow me to easily demonstrate the solution to the promise of praxeology…
Reforming Rothbard: The Rothbardian Fallacies
(intellectual arms dealing) (retaking the brand of liberty from the lunatic fringe) [R]othbardians are relying upon and spreading numerous fallacies: (a) the fallacy of the NAP/IVP as the moral and legal basis for an anarchic polity, (b) the fallacy of aggression rather than the necessity of trust, (c) and the fallacies of the origin of…
(CORE) Propertarianism : Uniting Hoppe And Hayek
“Hayek’s work composes a system of ideas, fully as ambitious as the systems of Mill and Marx, but far less vulnerable to criticism than theirs because it is grounded on a philosophically defensible view of the scope and limits of human reason. ” –John N. Gray, in Hayek on Liberty (1984), Preface, p. ix COMMENT…
