Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

ROMAN CUT THIS: #13 – LESTERIAN VERBALISM

Jan lester’s theory of liberty is an obscurantist tautological verbalism that starts with the mere normative meaning of liberty and he loosely deduces subjective value, rather than starting with subjective value, constructing morality, and defining liberty as a legal constraint against the members of the state as yet another statement of property rights. since nothing he states is existential, he demonstrates the fallacy of rationalism in creating mere analogies rather than operational necessities.

Only in libertine or marxist philosophy could you get away with anything that ridiculous outside of a temple of one kind or another. Only in philosophy could you get away with something that ridiculous.

And that’s before I get to the abuses of Critical Rationalism. For some reason Lester confuses falsification as hardening a theory, with legitimizing incompetence – a failure to demonstrate that he hasn’t just created a tautology. (Which he has.)

Apparently I have to do a summary of on all the extant libertarian follies instead of just making fun of Jan Lester. On the other hand, at least he isn’t promoting libertinism – he’s just promoting pseudo-rationalism, pseudo-science, and sloppy thinking.

Which doesn’t put him in too exclusive a club. Sigh.