Gene Callahan has posted a link to an interesting article describing how plants respond to signals from other plants in their enviroment and alternatively cooperate or compete with neighboring plants, depending on degree of kinship.
It has come to my attention that Gene Callahan has responded to my remarks regarding "objective moral truths" that I noted here . Rather than continuing the long threadjack of an unrelated post by Bob Murphy (on climate change science), I copy and respond below to Gene`s remarks: 1. Gene :...
[Well, the Mises server just swallowed my first attempt at this post, so the reader will just have to suffer this sketchier one.] I have been chasing both Gene Callahan and Bob Murphy to try to get them to spell out what they mean when they assert that there is an "objective moral order" in...
[Update: Bob Murphy sends in an email comment, copied (in relevant part) at the bottom of this post.] I`ve addressed here on five different threads the question of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post . I`ve commented here mainly because...
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A recent post on the Mises Daily pages on the " Religious Roots of Liberty " by the late Congregationalist minister Rev. Edmund Optiz (1914-2006) (originially published in The Freeman, February 1955 ) provides an opportunity to restate and discuss some of the thoughts I`ve been working though...
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I refer to my previous posts on the interesting subject of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post , returned to in a subsequent post but abandoned, to be picked up but ultimately punted by Bob Murphy (and again by Gene when he visited Bob...