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Thanks for your excellent responses. I am against religion as much as the state of course, as both are irrational and abusive power structures, like too many families. If you have a little time, you might find my free book on secular ethics to be interesting, since I do attempt to create a rational framework...
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That is certainly true, of course, my perspective at least is that it is almost completely irrelevant to any modern discussion of ethics. For instance, since we allow governments to clearly initiate the use of force against their citizens in the forms of taxation, kidnapping, and imprisonment - and since...
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This website is home to some of the biggest mishmashes of insightful analysis and total irrationality and intellectual elitism... http://realitysandwich.com Mostly, I bring it up because one of my friends is really into it, and I'm trying to figure out the most productive way of approaching her about...
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I am somewhat familiar to Steph's philosophy, but I was wondering what some of you thought about some of Steph's ideas of Objective/Subjective as compared to Robert Piersig's Metaphysics of Quality and its relationship to Objective/Sbjective reality.
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http://www.jonathangullible.com/mmedia/PhilosophyOfLiberty-english_music.swf I thought it was a pretty good sort of intro into free market stuff. I mean, I think it gets the general idea across without freaking people out too much. The website it came from is pretty good too. Sorry if this has been posted...
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Okay, it's not exactly that bad, but let me explain. I just woke up with an interesting thought about what philosophy does to your "vision" of the world. As you know philosophy allows us to judge whether statements are true or false, moral or immoral. This allows us to quickly dissect articles...
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Stefan Molyneux: Civil disobedience only alienates the majority from the truth, since they see it as petty and selfish resistance to the benevolence of the state. It's also a handy way to avoid acting on the truth in one's personal life... Correct me if I'm wrong, but this just made me think...
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stef, how would you want believers of your philosophy to be referenced? stefanist? stefanian? molyneun? molynian? molynist? ...or philosopher?
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Peter Boettke wrote an essay of sorts on his blog, The Austrian Economists , last Saturday (Jan. 12). I believe that it is highly important that you read this. Yes, you. Right there. You. Here's the Permalink. Here's a bit of the article: " In light of the recent exposure of unsavory sentiments...
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I have held the belief, for some time now, that with the continued advancement of technology and science, we'll all be very rich and free eventually. With nanotechnology, biotechnology, efficient and mobile sources of energy, there will be nothing for government to offer to individuals. So, just...