Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

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    http://direct.mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=215

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-12 22:28:00 UTC

  • COMPLIMENTS. AND AGREEMENT ON ENDS IF NOT MEANS Even though I am from the conser

    COMPLIMENTS. AND AGREEMENT ON ENDS IF NOT MEANS

    Even though I am from the conservative side of the fence, this is a fantastic list, and I enjoy it every day.

    I try to judge people by their desired ends, not so much as by their method of getting to those ends. Desired ends are determined by moral sentiments. The means of achieving them are a function of knowledge or ignorance. Creating a wonderful world to share with each other requires that we also share those desired ends, and that we cooperate on those ends, even if we prefer to use different means.

    While I’m a critic of the GSHM ideology for a host of reasons — its limited understanding of the necessary properties of economic cooperation through competition and prices, the impossibility of the Utopian idea of outcome-equality, the anti-scientific, contra-rational faith in biological equality, the universal error of false consensus bias, the and the confusion between over-population and over-consumption, that doesn’t mean that I have a different desire for the same peaceful equal, egalitarian world. I do. I just realize that consensus hasn’t ever, and can’t helped us get there. Only institutions that help us do it through productive competition can. And government is the problem more often than it is the cure.

    What I love about this page and its members is the positive and aspirational nature of the posts. I can solve the problem of knowledge and ignorance. We can do that together. What we can’t solve is the problem of people who have selfish ends.

    Thanks for your work.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-11 10:14:00 UTC

  • Our Name Change: Propertarianism.com

    [F]or the past tewlve years I’ve been working on political philosophy, and for the past three years, nearly full time. And now and then, as arguments evolve, I’ve updated the site to reflect the voice I’m currently using, and the position in the market for philosophy that I’m addressing. Over the past three years, my work at extending Hoppe and Rothbard’s ethical model to address heterogeneous societies has matured into a fairly complete philosophical system, the scope of which hasn’t really been attempted in recent memory by anyone other than Heidegger. And it’s a task that is greater than I may be talented enough to complete. But that said, I’m still doing a yeoman’s labor, and changing the title of my public workshop to accurately reflect the my emphasis on the Propertarian system of ethics, is overdue. This change partly driven by our work at the Propertarian Institute at www.propertarians.com, where we promote propertarian reasoning as a means of understanding and comparing the different libertarian and conservative ideological platforms, in rational rather than moral terms. And where I am but one small participant in a large research program that has been advancing since Burke was struck cold by the horrors of the French Revolution.

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-02 18:47:00 UTC

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    http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/gun-control-as-castration/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-02 05:16:00 UTC

  • IS EVENLY DISTRIBUTED BY POLITICAL PARTY (Why? Its not complicated. )

    http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/racism-by-political-party.htmlRACISM IS EVENLY DISTRIBUTED BY POLITICAL PARTY

    (Why? Its not complicated. )

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-29 08:55:00 UTC

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    http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/roger-scruton-fake-culture/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-29 07:03:00 UTC

  • TWO: STEVEN PINKER NEEDS PRAXEOLOGICAL CORRECTION. Better angels of our nature i

    TWO: STEVEN PINKER NEEDS PRAXEOLOGICAL CORRECTION.

    Better angels of our nature is one of the most important books of this century. Along with Acemoglu, Haidt, Fukuyama and a handful of others.

    And since hes one of those whose works we use to correct progressive thinking, I don’t like to criticize him.

    But better angels fails to accurately judge incentives.

    And as such he uses his errors to come to a fanciful conclusion in chapter 10. He nods to the problem of males. But he does not even mention the problems with females.

    I need a few months to write this spring. :/

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-28 13:45:00 UTC

  • ONE: STEPHEN WILLIAMSON NEEDS PRAXEOLOGICAL CORRECTION I mean. I hate to critici

    ONE: STEPHEN WILLIAMSON NEEDS PRAXEOLOGICAL CORRECTION

    I mean. I hate to criticize him. But I’m going to have to correct his position on guns.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-28 13:36:00 UTC

  • THE LEFT CEDES THE INTELLECTUALLY OBVIOUS

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/opinion/krugman-is-growth-over.htmlRELUCTANTLY THE LEFT CEDES THE INTELLECTUALLY OBVIOUS

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-28 06:53:00 UTC