Argumentation ethics

The problem of particularistic ethics or, why everyone really has to admit the validity of the universalizability principle

From The Meaning of Morality. As I write in an upcoming paper (“The Ethical Case Against Intellectual Property,” Griffith Law Review, Symposium on Law and Anarchy: Legal Order and the Idea of a Stateless Society (Symposium Editor, Gary Chartier; forthcoming 2012)) [update: this article was withdrawn from this symposium due to a disagreement with the […]

Justice and Property Rights: Rothbard on Scarcity, Property, Contracts…

From The Libertarian Standard, Nov. 19, 2010. Any updates to this post will be made here. Justice and Property Rights: Rothbard on Scarcity, Property, Contracts… Rothbard has so many amazing works. Some of my favorite of his articles include “The Mantle of Science,” “Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution” (pdf), “Beyond Is and Ought,” “Toward […]

Hoppe on Covenant Communities and Advocates of Alternative Lifestyles

As Guido Hülsmann and I observe in our Introduction to Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Mises Institute, 2009), Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe is without a doubt one of the most important libertarian scholars of our time: “He has made pioneering contributions to sociology, economics, philosophy, and history. He is the dean of […]

Estoppel – Argumentation Ethics – Aggression

Interesting thread in the Mises Forums, started by “liberty student”: Estoppel – Argumentation Ethics – Aggression. Update: Another interesting thread is the anti-state.com forum The Great Hoppe Debate, which discussed Defending Argumentation Ethics: Reply to Murphy & Callahan; see also Hülsmann on Argumentation Ethics; Revisiting Argumentation Ethics, Mises and Argumentation Ethics.