So I started reading some articles by Chris Sciabarra last night, and I ended up ordering his book Total Freedom. Has anyone here read it? From what I gathered, it starts out as an exposition of dialectics as a methodological orientation, then applies the methodology Rothbard. His first book covered Rand and the second was on Hayek.
Seriously, his articles that I read absolutely blew my mind. I never thought I would be excited to re-visit Rand and Rothbard and actually get something completely new out of it. He traces dialectics back to Aristotle and shows how it is not just a socialist methodology, but lends itself quite well to liberalism.
In addition to this, if you are looking for added depth to your understanding of Austrian liberalism, I highly recommend this article by Barry Smith and this paper by Roderick Long.
I know we all think that teaching good economics in schools will help bring about liberal society, but I think an equally important project is giving credence to the liberal philosophy by presenting it in a way relevent to modern academic standards. These guys are doing it by tying the Austrian tradition to not just Aristotle, but Frege, Husserl, Wittgenstein and even Hegel and Marx.
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Haven't read the book but Max Stirner is a dielectiction and another radical German subjectivist. Which is - in relation to the Aristotle paper- important when learning about how he, along with Marx are the tail end of Hegel - and how he is already head and shoulders above Marx.
It may do good a lot of good to look seriously at these often negelcted Germans, such as Weber, Freud, and Stirner who use non British systems of empiricism/ materialism as sort of proto Austrians.
Only glanced at this but this may be an interesting read as well:
http://mises.org/journals/scholar/Sunwall3.pdf
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