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Morality, Reason, and Passion

Edwin Patterson, as quoted by Murray Rothbard, defines natural law as: “Principles of human conduct that are discoverable by “reason” from the basic inclinations of human nature, and that are absolute, immutable and of universal validity...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Jun 20 2009

Filed under: Ethics

The Magistrate/Mandarin Principle

This is the first of a series of posts called "Principles of Man". I will continually return to each post in this series adding more evidence for its importance from history. The state is a maleficent symbiosis of enslaving brigands (magistrates...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sat, Aug 29 2009

Filed under: History, Political Philosophy, Principles of Man

3rd parties in America and IVR

I wrote this in a response to a question raised about 3rd parties in America. But there is a solution, I don't expect anyone here to buy into this as a way of saving democracy or justifying it, or any of the above, but at least it may help. It's...

Posted to Attackdonkey by Attackdonkey on Fri, Sep 26 2008

Filed under: votes, democracy, electoral college, refom, governmet, elections

Reafirmación de la religión cívica

Por Leland B. Yeager. (Publicado el 21 de diciembre de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5704 . [ The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient •...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Feb 1 2012

Filed under: crítica de libros, elección pública, Leland Yeager, Donald Wittman

Some Great Discoveries

Today I have been fortunate enough to discover some redeeming features of the UMass library: "The Great Idea" by Henry Hazlitt and some of Nock's books. I knew it had some Mises and Hayek--even some Rockwell in the e-book section--but I...

Posted to The Spirit of Liberty by TigerofRobare on Sat, Nov 17 2007

Marches and Protests in the U.S.

As an outsider observer, it disturbs me a bit that protest marches are becoming more popular in the US. This reflects a wider disconnection between people and their government. In my Venezuelan case these kinds of marches have occurred nonstop since the...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Thu, Sep 17 2009

Filed under: state, protest, marches, healthcare, fortunate, outsider, debatable, afford, polarization, policy, reform

Mi vida en la BLS

Por Shawn Ritenour. (Publicado el 24 de octubre de 2000) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/534 . *Traducido por Sandra Cifuentes Dowling Se ha publicado recientemente en el Washington...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Sun, Nov 27 2011

Filed under: burocracia, Shawn Ritenour, estadística

Make use of what you've already got

At a very rudimentary level I think that efforts like this to make a more productive use out of the energy already being used and released through ordinary foot travel is in one sense brilliant yet in another sense obvious. I think about this whenever...

Posted to Austrian Addiction by Austrian Addiction on Mon, Oct 27 2008

Filed under: energy

Hoppe habla turco

Por Doug French. (Publicado el 30 de mayo de 2006) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4394 . En el 484 a de C., Herodoto, el padre de la historia escrita, nació en la antigua...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Wed, Jan 25 2012

Filed under: Doug French, Hans Hermann Hoppe, Turquía

El último cisne negro: La ley de Caylee

Por Wendy McElroy. (Publicado el 3 de agosto de 2011) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/5511 . Ley de cisne negro: una ley creada en respuesta a una situación o caso legal...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Aug 4 2011

Filed under: legislación, Wendy McElroy, cisne negro

El dogma colectivista

Por Ludwig von Mises (Publicado el 3 de noviembre de 2010) Traducido del inglés. El artículo original se encuentra aquí: http://mises.org/daily/4770 . [Extraído del capítulo 11 de Teoría e historia ] La filosofía...

Posted to Mises Daily en español by euribe on Thu, Nov 4 2010

Filed under: Ludwig von Mises, Teoría e historia, colectivismo

Good for Afghanistan, Good for America.

We all know that Afghanistan has one of the most corrupt governments on the planet. This is mainly due to the fact that it has never paid to be honest in Afghanistan. Since before Alexander's failed campaign over 2,000 years ago, Afghanistan has been...

Posted to Not-a-Lemming by FutbolGuru on Wed, Nov 18 2009

Filed under: Schools, US Institute of Peace, Afghanistan, National Solidarity Program, Taliban

The Ontological Revolution: The Proto-Skepticism of Heraclitus

This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Induction in Ancient Greek Thought. A key element of the cosmologies of the Milesian physiologi is the phenomenon of change. Each Milesian believed the...

Posted to Lilburne @ Mises by Daniel James Sanchez on Sun, Jun 28 2009

Filed under: Epistemology, Ontology, Skepticism, Heraclitus

A View from the Trenches, July 29th, 2010: "Earnings vs. macro picture"

Please, click here to read this article in pdf format: july-29-2010 From our vantage point, the last 72 hours are confirming our long-term perspective that the recent strength in the stock markets is baseless. There are currently two main arguments supporting...

Posted to A View from the Trenches by Martin Sibileau on Thu, Jul 29 2010

Monarquía, Democracia y Orden Natural

Hans-Hermann Hoppe Teoría e historia Quisiera mostrarles, en un plano de abstracción superior, de qué modo la teoría resulta imprescindible para interpretar correctamente la historia. La Historia -la secuencia de acontecimientos...

Posted to Rodrigo Diaz by Rodrigo Diaz on Tue, May 20 2008