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Has ever a non-human animal said to a human or to another animal: "don't tread me as an animal" ? Or "Why are you agreding me"? One has to realise that ethics emerge from conflicts, and humans can choose how to solve them, violently or not. They can start an argumentation trying to convince the other to avoid violence and to
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I thought the same when i read that "news". Or either the CIA is taking advantage of the fact that "anonymous" is really anonymous and they covertly act on its behalf or the whole anonymous thing is made up to fearmonger about internet dangers and hence legislate on it.
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"The starting point of all praxeological thinking is not arbitrarily chosen axioms, but a self-evident proposition, fully, clearly and necessarily present in every human mind. An unbridgeable gulf separates those animals in whose minds this cognition is present from those in whose minds it is not fully and clearly present. Only to the former is
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The purpose of austrian economics is precisely the opposite, that is to emphasize the fact that human action can't be predicted. It makes of the action axiom its ultimate foundation. For austrians, economics are a set of propositions that define the formal structure of action and its implications. Of course economics is a tool for the interpretation
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Various doctrines have been advanced to explain the relation between mind and body. They are mere surmises without any reference to observed facts. All that can be said with certainty is that there are relations between mental and physiological processes. With regard to the nature and operation of this connection we know little if anything. Concrete
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I have to make you aware that empirical data cannot prove nor refute apodictic statements that conform economic theory. If you want to find anything contradictory in the ABCT you will have to find it in its deduction from the premises in which it is based, such as "production preceeds consumption", "what has been already consumed can't
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If you want to write about the austrian method, I think beyond reading what austrians say about that, you might need to read about its philosophical framework. In short, the austrian school (at least in the mises-rothbard-hoppe axis) is a joint venture and a common effort between the continental "kantian" tradition of rationalism and the latin
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One of the best argumentation against the the impossibility of knowledge (understood as a set of statements that pass the validity test) which is the logical consequence of the widespread hermeneutics in contemporany social scientists, theory as a discourse as a narration, reality as a narration, etc, is found in the Ethics and Economics of Private
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I was a common right wing guy all my life (until i was 23 or so) with emphasis in economic freedom. Then I learnt enough english to listen to english youtube videos of Milton Friedman's Free to choose series and Ron Paul videos. When the crisis came i listened much to what Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers and Marc Faber had to say. From that I began a journey
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From my modest point of view, the most important factor that distinguishes the anarcho-capitalists from any other movement/ideology is that it finds its roots in austrian economics. Austrians see (after Mises) praxeology as the starting point to apodictically deduce all their social theories regarding economics (Human Action), ethics (Rothbard's