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As a student, I often find myself arguing with socialists. I have organised many debates with socialists, and am holding conferences in Austrian economics. Doing everything I can with my knowledge, in order to persuade socialists to understand economics, capitalism and rights... I am still young however...
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After carefully reading Tara Smith's books (Viable Values and Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics), and Rasmussen's paper A Groundwork for Rights, I'm convinced Ayn Rand provided a solid grounding for libertarian ethics. The problem is that Objectivists usually cloak their meta-ethical arguments...
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I thought this would be a good way of spreading our message freely, further, and faster. I arranged all information within the torrent exactly as it was downloaded from the beautifully-arranged Mises U that you have implemented on iTunes. I thought this additional format of delivery would be handy for...
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I was reading a short book on aesthetics and theories of it and began a discussion of it with my girlfriend. She made some very interesting points and I'm always open to new ways of thinking about things as long as they aren't too kooky or aren't statist in any way.The way she described art...
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[quote user="I. Ryan"] [quote user="AJ"] I don't think the other fields have been developed much yet. Anything that can be studied in terms of human action can in theory be a field of praxeology. I have seen psychological action and ethical action be referred to as possible fields...
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I think I've made what will be my final post on Economics at the Science Forums Network, as I'm increasingly under the impression that it is not worth any further time and effort, I've said what needs to be said... In any case I was wondering what you guys think of how well I performed in...
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Hello everybody! Is praxeology grounded on psychological hedonism/eudaemonism? I've been reading for some hours trying to solve this doubt, but I found some (probable) contradictions between some Austrian economists on this issue; namely, Henry Hazlitt and David Gordon - they are the ones, I found...
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I'm sure that no one would disagree that "The Wealth of Nations" is at least in part a treatment of praxeology, but what about "The Theory of Moral Sentiments"? I just began reading it, and I'm not sure whether it is pure psychology or if it is also Praxeological in nature...
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For a while now my mind has been wondering into the delicate but dangerous field of social theory. But like with most complaints leveled against mainstream economics by Austrian economists, sociology is such a wide and expansive field, and what it aims to cover--the study of groups, whether small, interpersonal...
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Is Praxeology synonymous to Methodological Individualism? Praxeology is the science of human action. Methodological Individualism is a philosophical method aimed at explaining and understanding broad society-wide developments as the aggregation of decisions by individuals. They both have to do with understanding...