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Re: Hi, I'm (not) Lilburne

Sieben — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:34:53 GMT

No more grilburne :(

Re: Hi, I'm (not) Lilburne

Gero — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:04:16 GMT

Does revealing your name (Daniel James Sanchez) change anything about what you said using the pseudonym J. Grayson Lilburne? What costs outweighed the benefits of anonymity?

Re: Hi, I'm (not) Lilburne

Libertyandlife — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:36:29 GMT

Why the sudden change of mind to reveal your name?

Re: Hi, I'm (not) Lilburne

Nielsio — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:20:18 GMT

Hi Danny,

Welcome.

Re: Hi, I'm (not) Lilburne

Daniel James Sanchez — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:41:30 GMT

Dear friends and colleagues,

For the past year and a half, I've been writing and working under a pen name: J. Grayson Lilburne. As a promoter of anarcho-capitalism, having a degree of anonymity has provided a sense of security in this state-haunted world. But the downsides of having a sundered life have outweighed the upsides. So, I've decided to go back to my given name: Daniel James Sanchez. You can call me Danny. My email address is still the same as the one I've been using for a while (the one based on Mises' motto): tunecede@gmail.com

Here's to a great new year for the Mises Institute, the Mises Community, and the cause of liberalism!

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

Daniel James Sanchez — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:04:06 GMT

wilderness:

Are those all the blogs you have so far? I skimmed around on the blog page and didn't see any others. I really enjoyed reading them. Thanks.

I have an introductory First Post, and I wrote two more short posts today: Introducing Works and Days and Inductive Practical Astronomy. But besides those and the 11 listed above, that's it, since I started the blog the day before yesterday.

Glad you're enjoying them!

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

wilderness — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:18:12 GMT

Lilburne:

wilderness:
Though I'm itchin' to know how you view natural rights, maybe best not to bring that up yet. Not to debate, but curious since you brought that up as to what insight you may offer.

Yeah, I'll eventually get to ethics on my blog. But, very briefly, I definitely don't accept Donny's moral fictionalism. I'm definitely in the natural rights camp. But I differ from your average Rothbardian in that I believe (and this is where my Humeanism comes in) that morality springs from the passions, and not from reason. I know that's another circle to square: but it makes sense in my head, and I'll do my best to make it make sense on "paper" after I discuss epistemology, human nature, and economics.

Ok. Thanks.

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

wilderness — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:17:15 GMT

Are those all the blogs you have so far? I skimmed around on the blog page and didn't see any others. I really enjoyed reading them. Thanks.

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

Daniel James Sanchez — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:13:50 GMT

wilderness:
Though I'm itchin' to know how you view natural rights, maybe best not to bring that up yet. Not to debate, but curious since you brought that up as to what insight you may offer.

Yeah, I'll eventually get to ethics on my blog. But, very briefly, I definitely don't accept Donny's moral fictionalism. I'm definitely in the natural rights camp. But I differ from your average Rothbardian in that I believe (and this is where my Humeanism comes in) that morality springs from the passions, and not from reason. I know that's another circle to square: but it makes sense in my head, and I'll do my best to make it make sense on "paper" after I discuss epistemology, human nature, and economics.

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

wilderness — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:03:33 GMT

Lilburne:

wilderness:

Welcome!

I'll check out those articles. Looks very interesting.

Thanks, wilderness. I've been tempted to wade into the natural rights debate between you-and-Liberty-Student and Donny with an A. But I thought I had better get my epistemology squared away first.

I've already started to read you blog posts linked through the forum here. Good reads. Though I'm itchin' to know how you view natural rights, maybe best not to bring that up yet. Not to debate, but curious since you brought that up as to what insight you may offer.

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

Daniel James Sanchez — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:06:42 GMT

fakename:
that's interesting, how did both David Hume and Aritotle influence you? I would think they would both be jarring to the mind if they were both believed mainly because hume was such a radical a posteriorist as opposed to aristotle's apriorism.

I'm going to go into that in detail when my history of epistemology series of posts reaches Aristotle and Hume. But, basically I'm influenced by Hume's philosophy of mind and Aristotle's basic teleological analysis of human nature, his taxonomy of concepts, and the application of his formal logic to economics. I'll try to square that circle in my blog. Also, I believe Aristotle is not nearly as a prioristic as he is often characterized, and that Hume's a posteriorism is not as crude as many think. Aristotle was no Cartesian rationalist, and Hume was no Schmollerite/positivist.

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

Daniel James Sanchez — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:50:30 GMT

wilderness:

Welcome!

I'll check out those articles. Looks very interesting.

Thanks, wilderness. I've been tempted to wade into the natural rights debate between you-and-Liberty-Student and Donny with an A. But I thought I had better get my epistemology squared away first.

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

Daniel James Sanchez — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:41:00 GMT

Jon Irenicus:

Welcome. Always nice to see people who've read Aristotle.

Thanks. Aristotle had one of the most synoptic minds in history. We are all poorer for the anti-Aristotelean revolt of post-medieval scholarship in the Protestant west.

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

fakename — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:50:56 GMT

Lilburne:
my chief influences are Aristotle, David Hume,

that's interesting, how did both David Hume and Aritotle influence you? I would think they would both be jarring to the mind if they were both believed mainly because hume was such a radical a posteriorist as opposed to aristotle's apriorism.

Re: Hi, I'm Lilburne

wilderness — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:44:12 GMT

Welcome!

I'll check out those articles. Looks very interesting.