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de.aristocratia —When asked what form of instruction was most in vogue in Sparta, he said, “Knowledge of how to rule and to be ruled.”— [R]eform the academy with violence, not words: Testimonial Truth, Ethics, Law, Politics, Economics, Engineering and War. One does not rule those who are immoral with their permission – but expressly without…

de.aristocratia [M]oral judgement is not open to question any more than mathematical formulae are open to question. Either equations balance, and proofs can be constructed or they cannot. Either fully informed, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of externality was performed, or it was not. And in both cases, either information exists sufficient for decidability, or it…

[M]en are the walls of Europa, and the points of our swords its boundaries. Words and laws do not freedom make.

“[G]ods exist as numbers exist and formulae exist and narratives exist.” Adam Voight  Just to clarify: I think the original post is making the claim that ontologically, God falls into Popper’s category of “Thirdness” or the “Third World”. Religion is extremely adaptive; even the greatest critics of religion can see that and have said it…

**[I]t’s very hard to produce commons if you’re producing offspring who have no alternative but to parasite upon those commons.**

[H]ow we construct classical liberalism from Anarcho-Capitalism, and Anarcho-Capitalism from Nomocracy, and Nomocracy from Capitalism. You can’t do it any other way you know. 1. Capitalism (property rights) = Voluntary Organization of Production2. Nomocracy (Rule of Law) = Organic Evolution of Law3. Anarcho-… (anarchy) A Covenential Prohibition on Government. …….. Removal of All Political Liberty.4.…

(sketch) [I] always advocate aristocratic egalitarianism and aristocratic tribalism: the responsibility of aristocracy of every tribe to work with the aristocracy of every tribe to construct a moral world. My ambition is the organized suppression of the immoral, and the organized spread of aristocratic egalitarianism wherever moral man is to be found. I do not…

Kier, I love you for this post. Really. [T]he greeks lost writing for 600 years after the sea peoples. Europe fell into ignorance after the fall of rome, and the despotic, forced introduction of submissive Christianity. The world fell into verbal-mysticism, pseudo-science, and pseudo-rationalism starting with Marx, justified by the great war, and continuing until…

–“Propertarianism is a formal logic of morality, ethics and politics – and the necessary basis for a non-arbitrary, value-independent, universal, body of law; upon which any and all political orders can be constructed, and with which all questions of morality, ethics and politics are commensurable and all such propositions decidable.”—

[A] philosophical psychology ought to answer questions such as these: • What, if anything, are humans like deep down inside beneath the clothes of culture? • What, if any, features of mind-world interaction, and thus of the human predicament, are universal? • Is there any end state or goal(s) that all humans seek because they…

[I]t is irrelevant what you think of other cultures, and the people in them – unless they ignore you, it is only relevant what they think of you. Thinking is no counter to competition. It is merely self-congratulatory discounting to confuse conviction with convenience, and tolerance with letting the boat sink because bailing is someone…

QUESTION:  “Curt, Would you consider yourself a continental philosopher?” ANSWER:   [N]o. Propertarianism is an analytic argument based upon empirical evidence independent of and explicitly contrary to, if not hostile to, continental rationalism.  Continental philosophers reject natural science as the exclusive means of knowledge, whereas, I argue a sort of synthesis, where the methodology of science…

[W]hy do we refer to our voluntary organization of production as Capitalism when that era ended at least half a century ago –  and call it Consumer Cedit-ism instead. Ukrainians are poor because they lack credit. Capitalism is a different social class problem altogether. And by historical standards we don’t really have any capitalists any…

[P]reference is a choice. Demonstrated time preference (useful for the economic concept of interest but not scientific in that it’s causally descriptive) appears to be largely genetic, and is determined by what we consider the ‘frustration budget’:our ability to suppress the urge for gratification. So the terms, Impulsivity, frustration budget (tolerance), and time preference represent…

QUESTION: Curt Doolittle, how do you reconcile usufructs with Propertarianism? ANSWER:  Just for everyone’s benefit, lets understand what these things mean: DEFINITIONS  – Commons (common ownership) – where the three rights of ownership are held by more than one individual:  1 – Usus (use) The right to use or enjoy a commons, directly and without altering it.…

In the sense that Walter Block advocates the Non Aggression Principle (the “NAP”), as did Murray Rothbard; and in the sense that most self identified libertarians have also adopted the NAP – then, yes, he reflects a common libertine-libertarian rational justification of the common libertine-libertarian moral sentiment. However, the liberal libertarians (the classical liberals) –…

[I]t’s winter in Kiev. It’s 27F. It’s noticeably dark early again. I’ve hung up the leather jacket, switched to the wool coat and layers. The shops have heavily discounted what remains of fall, and those without winter stock are empty. They’ve skipped the ‘autumn’ coat season here and gone right to winter-wear. The music playlists…