Struggling With Max Stirner

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

scineram — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:05:40 GMT

Wtf is this deification? If you have a problem with science say so.

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

PureZer0 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:57:16 GMT

There were question marks at the end of my last two posts.

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

Brainpolice — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:50:03 GMT

It appears that you're simply misrepresenting people.

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

PureZer0 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:58:54 GMT

Help me out please.

Do you not embrace the deification of certain economic maxims, which you deduce from man's actions, while rejecting the deification of man in ethics?

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

Brainpolice — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:48:13 GMT

That's a mischaracterization. And I'm not an ethical nihilist. You've missed the point entirely.

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

PureZer0 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:32:23 GMT

Are you suggesting that it isn't hypocritical to reject deification in ethics, while embracing deification in economics?

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

Brainpolice — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:05:35 GMT

Also, I don't know what about "Struggling With Max Stirner" you don't understand. It means that I don't entirely agree with Stirner about everything, and I indicated such in the article when it came to the question of implications of ethical nihilism.

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

Brainpolice — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:59:23 GMT

The Austrian School of economics, to the extent that it stays true to its own economic methodology, has nothing to say about ethics. It works within the realm of intersubjective interpersonal relations. This article is not about economics, it's more broadly about philosophy.

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

PureZer0 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:38:34 GMT

Whatever the bases for the maxims may or may not be is secondary to the point that they are deified.

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Gendou — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:23:38 GMT

PureZer0: I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'm not certain that Austrian methodology requires a concept of self-ownership (since that is an ethical idea and not a concept of action), and I don't know what you mean by "innate-rationality."

-Gendou

re: Struggling With Max Stirner

PureZer0 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:01:19 GMT

The Austrian School does the same thing when it deifies its maxims, which it bases on spooks like self-ownership and innate-rationality.

It's hypocritical of you to urge people to challenge their ideas if you won't to do the same.