ETHICS : PRAXEOLOGY AND THE EQUILIBRIA OF VOLUNTARY TRANSFER COMPENSATE FOR LACK

ETHICS : PRAXEOLOGY AND THE EQUILIBRIA OF VOLUNTARY TRANSFER COMPENSATE FOR LACK OF CARDINALITY IN SUBJECTIVITY

The structural problem with the discipline of ethics, and perhaps philosophy in general, which is understandable given its period of origin, is not so much it’s lack of measurement – which given the ordinal nature of preferences is irrelevant – but it’s lack of equilibrial concepts with which to compensate for lack of measurement – even if it does account for externalities, albiet differently in european, asian and magian frameworks. This absence manifests itself in ideal types, general rules, and attempts at statements of perfection. When in fact, the ‘golden mean’, which Aristotle gave us, teaches us to consider ideas on a spectrum. Ideas with optimums can be compared with each other. Furthermore, voluntary and involuntary transfers – which are the source of all human cooperative behavior – can be used to inform us about whether our optimums will be demonstrably true, or ideological falsehoods.

Ethics without praxeology is idealism, not analysis. Ethics without equilibrial forces of property, voluntarily transferred, is simply deception.