POSTMODERNS, HICKS, HEGEL, DUCHESNE AND HOPPE (hegel standing there waiting for

POSTMODERNS, HICKS, HEGEL, DUCHESNE AND HOPPE

(hegel standing there waiting for you)

Whoever said that at the end of your philosophical journey, you will find Hegel standing there waiting for you was painfully accurate. The problem is (and I am dealing with this today) that you can’t know that when reading him. I simply could not translate his emotionally and spiritually loaded self conscious language into the emotionless, unloaded, and autistic language of economics that I make use of. This failure is a personal weakness born of my own autistic nature. But that said, it is terribly humbling even if Hegel merely, standing there at the end, has confirmed that which you have struggled to recreate by your own means.

I did not understand fully understand the postmodernists until Hicks put them into context for me. And I did not fully understand Hegel until Duchesne put him into context for me. With those contexts, I could then map my understanding of cognitive science, my understanding of economics, and my understanding of politics, to those contexts using propertarian language that I learned from Hoppe.

It is unfortunate that Hoppe is tainted. Because his genius is, and probably always will be underrated.

‘Property’ is the unit of human cooperative commensurability.

Always and everywhere.