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'Knowledge is a tool of acting.'
- Dr. Hans-Herman Hoppe, The Science of Human Action lecture, 2011 (minute 20:50)
Praxeology - '...causal-realist economics.'
- Joseph T. Salerno (Economics - '..acts of choice.' (‘..imagination of alternatives..’))
'Ludwig von Mises created a whole new discipline based on extensive methodological deliberation
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Project C '..a still more universal nihilism.'
<blockquote>'The radicalism of this wholesale condemnation of economics was very soon surpassed by a still more universal nihilism. From time immemorial men in thinking, speaking, and acting had taken the uniformity and immutability of the logical structure of the human mind as an unquestionable fact. All scientific inquiry was based on
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Project C 'In Thomist thought, reason and empiricism are not separated but allied and interwoven ... natural law, which had long integrated the rational and the empirical.'
'On the deeper level of the question of how we know what we know, or "epistemology," Thomism and Scholasticism suffered from the contrasting but allied assaults by the champions of "reason" and &qu
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Project C By Art Carden
December 11, 2009
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This article is based on my notes from Jorg-Guido Hülsmann's Mises University lecture "The Life and Work of Ludwig von Mises," delivered at the Ludwig von Mises Institute on July 26, 2009. You can also listen to a ten-lecture series on Mises here. Professor Hülsmann was kind enough to give me permission to write this article even though
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Project C 'It was a tragic day when economics, the queen of the social sciences, adopted the methods associated with the natural sciences: empiricism and positivism. In the sweep of economic thought, this change occurred —not coincidentally—about the same time that intellectuals and politicians came to believe in the efficacy of government planning. Despite their failures, both doctrines remain godles
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Project C <blockquote>"To suppose all consumers to be dupes, and all merchants and manufacturers to be cheats, has the effect of authorizing them to be so, and of degrading all the working members of the community."
- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727 - 1781)</blockquote>
'The spirit of thrift, Turgot notes, has been steadily rising in Europe over several centuries, and hence
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Project C <blockquote>"After analyzing these forms of socialism, the book turns to more controversial matters and the case for social engineering, where economists and other academics would prefer to implement only policies that "work" rather than blindly following some ideology. Here, Hans embarks on an all-out onslaught on social engineering and its foundation in positivism. This sec
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Project C <blockquote>"...there is also a third category of writers: those who accept both praxeological and ethical absolutism, and recognize that both are vitally necessary for a complete philosophical view, as well as for the achievement of liberty."</blockquote>
On Mises's Ethical Relativism
By Murray N. Rothbard
1960
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I think it important to delineate
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Project C <blockquote>'The use of the calculus, for example, that has been endemic in mathematical economics assumes infinitely small steps. Infinitely small steps may be fine in physics where particles travel along a certain path; but they are completely inappropriate in a science of human action, where individuals only consider matter precisely when it becomes large enough to be visible and im
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Project C '...the praxeological foundations of epistemology. Its central thesis was that all cognitive processes, and thus the sciences, are but special forms of human action. It followed that the laws of action were also the basic laws of epistemology.'
<blockquote>'Hans-Hermann Hoppe was born in the German town of Peine on September 2, 1949. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he st
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Project C 'But it took Professor Kuhn to provide a comprehensive model of the adoption and maintenance of scientific belief. Basically, he states that scientists, in any given area, come to adopt a fundamental vision or matrix of an explanatory theory, a vision that Kuhn calls a "paradigm." And whatever the paradigm, whether it be the atomic theory or the phlogiston theory, once adopted the
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Project C 'Such a science of human action cannot be elaborated either by recourse to the methods praised–but never practically resorted to–by the doctrines of logical positivism, historicism, institutionalism, Marxism and Fabianism or by economic history, econometrics and statistics. All that these methods of procedure can establish is history, that is, the description of complex phenomena that happen
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Project C 'Rothbard defends Mises' methodology but goes on to construct his own edifice of Austrian economic theory. Although he embraced nearly all of Mises' economics, Rothbard could not accept Mises' Kantian extreme aprioristic position in epistemology. Mises held that the axiom of human action was true a priori to human experience and was, in fact, a synthetic a priori category. Mis
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Project C By Bryan Appleyard
June 1, 2008
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A noisy cafe in Newport Beach, California. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is eating three successive salads, carefully picking out anything with a high carbohydrate content.
He is telling me how to live. “The only way you can say ‘F*** you’ to fate is by saying it’s not going to affect how I live. So if somebody puts you to death, make sure you shave.”
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Project C "Over the past fifty or so years traditional mathematics has become a core part of education. And while its more elementary aspects are certainly crucial for everyday modern life, beyond basic algebra its central place in education must presumably be justified more on the basis of promoting overall patterns of thinking than in supplying specific factual knowledge of everyday relevance. But i
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A LOUD SILENCE
By Denis Dragunsky
September 2006
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The mass media bosses secretly share the views of Bishop George Berkeley
So far one can only speak about the trend of curtailing freedom. One doesn’t want to use such scholarly terms as “authoritarianism”, or “the revival of Soviet-type censorship”, or “total etatism”, etc. These high-sounding words only muddle the sober thinking of
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Archive Consciousness, Science, and the Nature of Explanation
copyright Marion Gothier, April 1998
Abstract: Conscious experience is one of the last truly mysterious phenomena we know of. No satisfactory scientific account of phenomenal experience has been offered to date. This situation has led some to suspect that such an account may be impossible in principle. However, the arguments offered to suppo
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