Author: Curt Doolittle

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/22/propertarianism-vs-libertarianism-universally-descriptive-vs-preferentially-prescriptive-but-still-all-rights-as-property-rights/FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING MY WORK ON PROPERTARIANISM

(Prior to its completion)

For some reason I’ve had a bevy of requests over the past week for help understanding my work. I know that people sense that I’ve produced some interesting answers that ring true, but how can they either learn, test or falsify those arguments?

Well, I’ve been working on a book for a while now. And just as I think I’ve completed it, I understand something new and significant enough, that I have to restate my arguments. This turns out, most of the time, to make the arguments more compact. But that compactness takes time.

I think the best way to look at what I’m doing is to correct and complete praxeology (cooperation), as a ratio-scientific system of thought, based on reproductive strategies and reproductive instincts, that can compete with reason (words), numbers (identity), measurement (relations), physics (causes), and money (economics), as the logic of cooperation. If I am as successful as I think I have been, then I will have completed Mises’ work in producing the only science that was not invented in the ancient world, and therefore, solved the problem of the social sciences that has eluded us for millennia. Mises identified praxeology with economics, which is only partly correct. It is instead the science of cooperation, of which economics is merely a component.

My original goal was only to provide conservatives with a rational language with which to articulate their preferred and habituated social order, by transforming libertarian property rights theory into a universal property rights theory. But the end result is that I have, I think, except for the formal arguments, completed praxeology.

An interesting side effect is that in ‘completing the set of sciences’, and incorporating ‘action’ via operational language into those sciences, I have also been able to ‘cure’ mathematics of platonism, and legitimize Scientific Realism as the only logically tenable metaphysics and epistemology that can survive scrutiny by all the scientific disciplines, from reason through cooperation.

This should, albeit differently from Mises’ intention, succeed in rendering the obscurant leftist language of kleptocracy, and possible, all competing languages for the discussion of politics and economics, archaic.

The greeks themselves, as an aristocratic class, had heavily loaded their philosophical language, and we have but persisted in copying that loading across the ages. In no small part because this loading was necessary for both the function of religion and state, in a period where the institutions of law, money and credit were not sufficiently universal to tolerate ‘honest discourse’ on the structure of cooperation. It was this persistence in us, and the problem of institutions, that prevented the solution to the social sciences – at least until Mises and Weber.

I will unfortunately have to refute the Misesian and Rothbardian categories that define praxeology as what they are: nonsense – or rather demonstrate that they are advocacy rather than science. However, this refutation will result in an extremely simple socio biological representation of human action as cooperation on reproduction given different modes of material production that are available, while accommodating the natural instincts that we posses from our ancestors.

The outcome of this confrontation of previous moral argument with scientific reality, and calculative necessity, is that different social orders – meaning allocations of property rights – benefit different groups differently based upon their relative abilities. But the underlying moral instincts that drive these multitudinous permutations of manners, ethics, morals and norms, laws, and property rights, myths, rituals and traditions, remains constant across all human beings.

The fundamental problem facing all groups is the increasing suppression of discounts, and their replacement by market competition.

Northern Europeans, Protestants, North Sea Peoples, The Outbred Absolute Nuclear Family Culture that developed out of Indo European Circumpolar people’s pastoralism, the horse, bronze, wheel and chariot, Manorialism, the church’s interventions, and natural trade patterns between the Mediterranean and the north sea, were the most successful at suppressing discounts in all walks of life. The result was the high trust society: the extension of in-group moral intuitions to all members of the local society, to whom they were closely related.

This is a selection of postings I’ve written over the past year.

MY FULL ‘ARISTOCRATIC’ READING LISTS ARE AT

www.propertarianism.com/reading-list/

ON THE ORIGINS OF THE ETHICS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

See Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

ON THE ORIGINS OF OUR FAMILY MODELS IN LAND USE

See Emmanuel Todd

ON THE ORIGINS OF INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Engels,Todd and Duchesne (Pastoralism)(Manorialism)

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/09/07/6480/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-moral-basis-of-red-and-blue-states/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11 26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/19/diedre-mccloskeys-close-on-the-european-miracle-just-close/

ON THE ORIGINS OF THE RULE OF LAW AND ON THE ORIGINS OF THE COMMON LAW

(see hoppe and rothbard)

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/06/22/on-law-as-a-problem-of-calculation-coordination-and-dispute-resolution-in-the-face-of-necessary-ignorance-and-diversity-of-interest/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2012/07/31/justice-scalia-explains-textualism-and-originalism-without-explaining-why-we-must-rely-upon-them/

ON TRUST

Fukuyama: Trust, Various by Huntington

ON PROPERTY RIGHTS AS INCREASING SUPPRESSION OF DISCOUNTS AND FORCIBLE TRANSFER OF COMPETITION INTO THE MARKET WHERE THE RESULTS ARE VIRTUOUS.

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/22/propertarianism-vs-libertarianism-universally-descriptive-vs-preferentially-prescriptive-but-still-all-rights-as-property-rights/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/the-origins-of-property-as-increasing-prohibitions-on-discounts/

ON CHIVALRY AS STATUS THROUGH SERVICE

(can’t find any posts quickly)

ON THE STATE SUPPRESSION OF FREE RIDING AND THE RESULTING CONCENTRATION OF RENT SEEKING

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/why-doesnt-it-occur-to-us-that-we-dont-need-a-single-monopoly-government/

ON RACE AND DIVERSITY

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/core-on-race-and-diversity-in-libertarianism/

ON CLASS

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/propertarian-class-theory/

ON GENDER

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-female-arms-race-against-men-how-many-people-can-i-rally/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/genies-cant-be-put-back-into-bottles/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2012/12/11/single-women-now-rule-america/#.UrysYGQW3Wo

THE LIMITS OF MISESIAN CRITICISM OF ECONOMICS

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

ON THE REFORMATION OF PRAXEOLOGY, SCIENTIFIC REALISM AND THE MORAL SCIENCES

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/propertarianism-the-formal-logic-of-cooperation/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/we-cannot-think-without-metaphysical-biases/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-problem-of-ratio-moral-versus-ratio-scientific-arguments/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/20/legal-equality-is-necessary-economic-equality-is-unattainable-and-genetic-equality-is-undesirable-your-genes-matter/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/17/logic-praxeology-and-science-dependency-and-demarcation-reforming-libertarianism-by-incorporating-scientific-argument-rather-than-relying-on-the-purely-rational/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/19/necessity-vs-preference-in-political-and-ethical-theory/

http://www.propertarianism.com/scientific-and-philosophical-realism-terms-working-page/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/01/the-purpose-of-philosophy-in-the-analytic-naturalistic-philosophy-of-action/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/14/on-realism/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/on-the-distribution-of-platonism-in-the-stem-fields/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/we-cannot-think-without-metaphysical-biases/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/27/the-cognitive-biases-in-the-empirical-fields/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/27/1-on-the-purpose-of-scriptural-versus-rational-and-ratio-scientific-ideologies-2-on-the-source-of-property-rights-and-liberty/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/the-incentives-of-scientists-and-philosophers-a-virtuous-competition-for-status

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/01/more-on-hoppe-et-all-vs-popper-from-elsewhere/

ON PROPERTARIANISM

http://www.propertarianism.com/defining-propertarianism/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/08/31/ethics-morality-defined/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/22/competition-is-the-only-sanctioned-involuntary-transfer/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/06/22/cultures-are-portfolios-of-property-rights/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/17/property-is-not-created-by-a-choice-or-by-a-belief-it-is-an-action-that-action-is-the-application-of-organized-violence/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/22/the-honesty-of-violence/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/12/putting-violence-back-into-polite-political-discourse-once-sentence-at-a-time/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/14/the-source-of-private-property-is-violence/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/reason-and-fact-are-insufficient-for-persuasion-because-myth-mysticism-and-falsehood-are-more-comfortable-truths/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/06/22/property-praxeology-and-violence/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/22/voluntary-transfer-is-the-only-testable-ethical-principle/

ON PROPERTARIANISM VS LIBERTARIANISM

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/notes-on-the-libertarian-reformation-revised-and-edited/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/12/internecine-warfare-as-evidence-of-intellectual-failure/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/core-on-the-utopianism-of-libertarianism/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-mythology-of-the-enlightenment/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-aristocracy-of-everybody-is-a-failure/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/09/15/a-critique-of-the-anarchic-program-compared-to-the-intuitive-and-conservative-programs/#.Uryd1GQW3Wo

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/dont-throw-out-the-libertarian-baby-with-the-progressive-bathwater/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/09/17/the-value-of-hoppes-anarcho-capitalist-research-program/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/09/01/property-rights-and-taxes-as-loans/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/07/10/rights-and-fuzzy-language-you-demand-rights-you-cant-have-them-without-an-exchange/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/06/23/dear-libertarians-join-the-21st-century-dont-fight-the-last-war-its-postmodernism-not-socialism/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/20/brian-caplan-is-wrong-on-immigration-like-most-libertarians/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/13/kinsellas-criticism-of-locke-and-my-explanation-of-lockes-reasonable-mistake-and-what-to-do-about-it/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/03/09/on-rent-seeking/

ON DEBATE

http://www.propertarianism.com/tools-and-techniques-for-political-debate/

http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/08/29/a-short-essay-on-the-moral-obligation-to-disregard-feelings-in-political-discourse/