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19 June 2009
Menger on Natural Communism
This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 2 . Previously in this series: Menger on Economic vs. Non-Economic Goods As discussed before, economic goods (goods for which requirements exceed available quantities) necessitate... Read More...
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19 June 2009
Menger on Economic vs. Non-Economic Goods
This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 2 . Previously in this series: Menger on Property If a good is scarce (that is, if requirements for it exceed its available quantities), then it is an economic good, which is to... Read More...
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19 June 2009
Adam Smith and Hesiod
One does not need be a philosopher to have a working theory of morality. Nor need one be an economist to have a working theory of value. One can find implicit theories in the writings of any thoughtful person; and the ancient Greek poet Hesiod was a very thoughtful man. Conversely, one can be a philosopher... Read More...
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19 June 2009
Menger on Foreseeing Requirements
This post is part of a series exploring Principles of Economics by Carl Menger. The following explores content from chapter 2 . Previously in this series: Menger on Effective and Latent Requirements According to Menger, the first prerequisite of effective planning (which is considering how to satisfy... Read More...
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08 June 2009
Inductive Practical Astronomy
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Introducing Works and Days Much of the Works and Days , like the Theogony , is concerned with outlandish tales about the past. Here we have the myths of Prometheus, Pandora, and the Ages of Man (Golden... Read More...
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07 June 2009
Night, Day, and Induction
As I discussed in my last post, Hesiod's Eros (Love) can be thought of as a motive force that brings entities to come together (much like gravity) and to create. Khaos felt Eros , the urge or internal force that made it seek to give birth. And what did it first give birth to? Erebos , or Darkness... Read More...
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07 June 2009
Hesiod and Aristotelean Demonstration
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: The Epistemology of Divine Poetry . Even though Hesiod pleads "for the Muses told me so" as his chief intellectual justification, a careful reader can glean attempts at non-divine inference in... Read More...
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07 June 2009
The Epistemology of Divine Poetry
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Ethics in the Theogony . Now that I've introduced Hesiod's teachings in his Theogony (regarding cosmology , history , human nature , and ethics ), let us consider the grounds upon which he establishes... Read More...
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07 June 2009
Ethics in the Theogony
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Human Nature in the Theogony . There are some ethical considerations for the gods themselves before the establishment of Zeus's new order discussed in History in the Theogony . Again, Ouranos was the... Read More...
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07 June 2009
Human Nature in the Theogony
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: History in the Theogony . The anthropomorphic aspects of Hesiod's gods also give the Theogony some interesting insights into human nature. We have male striving: an eternal quest for women and power... Read More...
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07 June 2009
History in the Theogony
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: The Cosmology of Hesiod . The anthropomorphic aspects of Hesiod's cosmology are interesting in their own right as possible mythological tellings of actual events. (Herodotus and Plutarch took several... Read More...
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07 June 2009
The Cosmology of Hesiod
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Introducing the Theogony . A traditional synopsis of the Theogony might go as follows. The gods Khaos , Gaia , and Eros "come to be". Then Khaos gives birth to Nyx and Erebos , who in turn give... Read More...
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07 June 2009
Introducing the Theogony
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: The Inspiration of Hesiod . The Theogony is likely the work of poetry which made Hesiod's name. In his later poem Works and Days , Hesiod tells of how he won a prominent prize for poetry, and it is... Read More...
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07 June 2009
The Inspiration of Hesiod
This post is one in a series on the History of Epistemological Thought . Previously in this series: Epistemology in (Western) History: From Hesiod to Hoppe . One ancient day, at the foot of Mount Helicon in Boeotia, a lowly shepherd named Hesiod tended his flock. Upon entering a clearing, he found to... Read More...
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