Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • 10 Economists

    http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all10.htmlTop 10 Economists

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 11:08:00 UTC

  • left yet again predicting capitalisms demise. The resurrection cult at work

    http://newleftreview.org/II/87/wolfgang-streeck-how-will-capitalism-endThe left yet again predicting capitalisms demise.

    The resurrection cult at work…

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 11:01:00 UTC

  • (We not only tell the truth, we warranty our words.)

    (We not only tell the truth, we warranty our words.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 10:01:00 UTC

  • Damn. Looks like there will be collateral damage to Popper. Dialectic an unaccou

    Damn. Looks like there will be collateral damage to Popper.

    Dialectic an unaccountability for one’s words, as well as for one’s hypotheses.

    Reimagining platonism to do it.

    Our heroes fail us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 09:58:00 UTC

  • Another July Conqueror

    Another July Conqueror

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 07:42:00 UTC

  • It was sitting in front of us all the time. Just laying there. Obvious. We could

    It was sitting in front of us all the time. Just laying there. Obvious. We could have picked it up and run with it at any time.

    “The People Who Speak The Truth”

    The only people who do, for that matter.

    Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 07:28:00 UTC

  • ON NOZICK’S DEFERENCE TO COSMOPOLITANISM —“The completeness of Nozick’s compos

    ON NOZICK’S DEFERENCE TO COSMOPOLITANISM

    —“The completeness of Nozick’s composition is remarkable: he touches somewhere in the book, however lightly, almost every note of American decadence. Gandhi is there. The necessary deference to feminism is there. The necessary reproof to “racism” is there. Carlos Castaneda is there, referred to as though he were a thinker, which he is not… . Drugs of course are there, and in no unfavorable light: drugs may have their place, Nozick thinks, in “the treatment for philosophical parochialism.” Has he left anything out? Is there anyone in post-Vietnam America who needs to be placated, whom he has not placated? This was obviously a worry, and there is a nervous catch-all reference to “children’s rights, the treatment of animals, domination and ecological awareness.””—-

    –“Nozick looked forward to a new version of philosophy that would replace arguments with a kinder, gentler alternative—explanations—because arguments, after all, attempt “to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not.”—

    From David Stove

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 06:24:00 UTC

  • DIALECTICAL FALLACIES : TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF YOUR MOUTH —“It’s possibl

    DIALECTICAL FALLACIES : TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF YOUR MOUTH

    —“It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.— Karl Marx, in a letter to Engels, 1857

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 06:19:00 UTC

  • Race is only a problem because of democracy – because of monopoly rule, and the

    Race is only a problem because of democracy – because of monopoly rule, and the power granted to the winners of monopoly rule, over others. Instead, polycentrism, and aristocratic egalitarianism, are merely a means of cooperating between families, on behalf of families. Under democracy heads of classes are forced into conflict for power. Under aristocracy we are placed only into market competition. An aristocrat has no possible reason for conflict with other aristocrats from any background in the world. Democracy is the reason for racial conflict. Otherwise we can just cooperate or engage in conflict as we have always done – regardless of race, and entirely because of economics.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 02:41:00 UTC

  • NIETZSCHE WAS ‘A WHOLE LOTTA RIGHT’ I don’t take the evolution of intellectual h

    NIETZSCHE WAS ‘A WHOLE LOTTA RIGHT’

    I don’t take the evolution of intellectual history all that seriously because I see it as reactionary – a reaction to changes in economic status. An attempt to reorder our values in response to the evolution of our conditions. As such I see the world history as a record of the evolution of institutional technologies in which philosophy and religion are yet another technology in the set of available institutions.

    Whereas myths, traditions and norms are taught to us environmentally, religion and philosophy are taught to us pedagogically, and then become part of our myths, traditions and norms, over time – assuming that they succeed in propagating. Although, whether they succeed in propagating (a short term advantage) and how they impact our cultures (long term consequences) are often very different things.

    Nietzsche is, like most philosophers, and particularly pre-analytic philosophers, is a tough read for a scientist lacking empathy with norms and perceptions of the time. But the more I understand in my scientific terms, the more right he was in his narrative terms.

    He understood.

    We need our aristocracy. Our excellence. Our individualism. Our peerage. Our brotherhood of property. That is the cause of our success.

    Universalism is nothing but a war against us.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-20 01:58:00 UTC