The Utilitarian Foundation of Morality
Do you find utilitarianism convincing, or do you subscribe to natural-law or argumentation ethics instead? They need not contradict.
Praxeology
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Human Action Is Purposeful Action
The knowledge that human action is purposeful action has nothing to do with psychology.
Praxeology: The Method of Economics
Recorded at Mises University 2011. Includes an introduction by Mark Thornton.
Cardinal Utility: It’s Worse Than You Thought
Preferences are ordinal, and our analysis has to reflect that simple, unavoidable fact.
True Knowledge from A Priori Theory
How do we know about the outer world — or reality, for that matter? Where does our knowledge about it come from? The attempt to answer these questions leads to epistemology, the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin, scope, and validity of human knowledge.
Mises on Action
“Man is a social animal”: thus Aristotle’s famous dictum is often translated. Ludwig von Mises believed that man could not have acquired the ability to act had his forebears lived in complete isolation. And John Donne said, “No man is an island.”
Mises on Mind and Method
It has become a popular trick among people who are unprepared to grapple with Austrian economics to try to short-circuit the debate.
Kudos to Both the Online Experience and the Intro to Logic Class
Logic hasn’t always been such a poor stepchild. It was once required material for every educated adult.
