What condition does mankind find itself in? Language, property and production are elements unique to mankind. Humans are social animals. Cooperation is normal. Language permits direct communication. Animals can’t abstract in the way humans can. They can form sounds but not words. Animals cannot make inferences explicitly. Animals do not have what we call self-consciousness (reflection).
Mises’ book, Liberalism, states that liberalism sufficed to change the face of the earth. The term liberal has since been hijacked by social democrats, so they don’t have to use the tainted word socialism. Raico defines liberalism to be civil society, minus the state, running itself within the bounds of private property.
There was a natural law tradition from antiquity and the middle ages. Natural law is the oldest and most frequently used concept of political theory. Natural law is the principles that are to be established if justice were to prevail. Or, it is the scientific laws of man and his environment.
Roderick Long leads The Mises Circle: An Informal Discussion of Anarchy at Mises University 2004.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Austrian Workshop series in Auburn, Alabama, on 29 July 2004.
Mark Thornton discusses the irrational fear of deflation at this Austrian Workshop seminar.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Austrian Workshop seminar series on 22 June 2004 in Auburn, Alabama.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series in Auburn, Alabama, on 31 May 2004.
Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Houston, Texas; September 22-23, 1995.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series in Auburn, Alabama, on 31 May 2004.
Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Harvard Square, Massachusetts; April 28-29, 1989.
Is the state’s power of eminent domain necessary in a free society? Walter Block and Richard Epstein debate the topic.
