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[quote user="liberty student"] [quote user="William Green"]The rational part can overcome the animal, but it doesn't often do so.[/quote] All human action is rational . [quote user="William Green"]It seems clear that most of humanity is typically governed by the "animal"...
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If you have read Lew Rockwell's article today , you may be discouraged as I am. It raises a question I have been wrestiling with. I will try to put it into words: If freedom is the path to greater human fulfillment (and I believe it is), and if people naturally seek higher satisfaction (fulfillment...
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Upon examination, I have recently found that virtue ethics has had a greater and greater appeal to me. As I understand philosophy, ethics is a subgroup of axiology, the study of values (good and bad). Thus, ethics is ultimately the study of objectively good and bad actions. Unfortunately, the ethical...
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I am trying to understand the status of wilderness wildlife in a free society from a natural rights perspective. In particular, I am interested in what could have prevented someone from slaughtering all of the buffalo on the great plains for simple sport (I understand that the actual events were more...
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I am relatively new to this libertarian way of thinking and I have to say on the surface it is very appealing to me. One major question I have though which I haven't gotten a clear answer on is, "What place, if any, is there for the severely disabled in a libertarian nation"? I mean, I...
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Veatch, as quoted by GAP, is strawmanning Hume. Veatch quotes the following passage by Hume: But can there be any difficulty in proving, that vice and virtue are not matters of fact,. . . Take any action allow'd to be vicious: Wilful murder, for instance. Examine it in all lights, and see if you...
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From another thread... [quote user="Laughing Man"]Ah yes but to use an example of Long. Let us theorize that you have ends for both Ice cream and fame and you are confronted with a choice between the two. You can either choose fame or choose ice cream. There must be a third 'aim' that...
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[quote user="Laughing Man"] Por Que? [/quote] i think his view of happiness as the ultimate goal is not indicated by praxeology, all praxeology indicates is that within the framework of a particular given actor one aims at satisfaction. but such satisfaction is ontologically or materially distinct...
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[quote user="Knight_of_BAAWA"] [quote user="Anarcho-Mercantilist"]The phrase "initiation of force" cannot be logically defined without circularity[/quote]Nonsense. Do try to grasp that words have definitions. [/quote] How do you conclude that "nuclear weapon production...
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[quote user="Juan"][quote user="Brainpolice"]But to address the original question, I'm not exactly a utilitarian (in the sense of making use of a pleasure/pain principle or in the sense of trying to make morality metric).[/quote] By calling you a utilitarian, I meant that you...