Curt Doolittle

Category: Natural Law and Reciprocity

  • THOSE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING MY WORK ON PROPERTARIANISM (Prior to its compl

    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/

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 17:37:00 UTC

  • (the logic of cooperation) is in fact the only new ‘logic’ since ancient times.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/Praxeology (the logic of cooperation) is in fact the only new ‘logic’ since ancient times. Largely because it is far more complicated that either reason (logic), numbers, (identity), operations of measurement-and-ratio (relations), and physics (causality). It was the hardest problem to solve because there are no constant relations to measure except at very large scale (aggregates).

    I just had to fix Praxeology, and it took me over a decade.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 03:22:00 UTC

  • The Origins of Property As Increasing Prohibitions on Discounts

    (profound) From Property to Private Property, High Trust Private Property, and Anarchic High Trust Private Property. 1. Community Property is the result of the partial suppression of discounts 1.1 Violence (asymmetry of force) 2. Private property is the result of additional suppression of indirect discounts 2.1 Theft (asymmetry of control) 2.2 Fraud (false information) 2.3 Free Riding (using externalities for self benefit) 3. High Trust Private Property is the RESULT of total Suppression of Personal Discounts. 3.1 Omission (Omitting information) 3.2 Obscurantism (Obscuring information) 3.3 Obstruction (Inhibiting someone else’s transaction) 3.4 Externalization (externalizing costs of any transaction) 3.5 Socializing Losses (externalization to commons) 3.6 Privatizing Gains (appropriation of commons) 4. Anarchic High Trust Private Property is Result of the total suppression of organized discounts 4.1 Rent Seeking (organizational free riding) 4.2 Corruption ( organized rent seeking) 4.3 Conspiracy (organized indirect theft) 4.4 Extortion (Organized direct theft) 4.5 War (organized violence) (Note: almost there. I am trying to tie property rights to trust (velocity) )

  • The Origins of Property As Increasing Prohibitions on Discounts

    (profound) From Property to Private Property, High Trust Private Property, and Anarchic High Trust Private Property. 1. Community Property is the result of the partial suppression of discounts 1.1 Violence (asymmetry of force) 2. Private property is the result of additional suppression of indirect discounts 2.1 Theft (asymmetry of control) 2.2 Fraud (false information) 2.3 Free Riding (using externalities for self benefit) 3. High Trust Private Property is the RESULT of total Suppression of Personal Discounts. 3.1 Omission (Omitting information) 3.2 Obscurantism (Obscuring information) 3.3 Obstruction (Inhibiting someone else’s transaction) 3.4 Externalization (externalizing costs of any transaction) 3.5 Socializing Losses (externalization to commons) 3.6 Privatizing Gains (appropriation of commons) 4. Anarchic High Trust Private Property is Result of the total suppression of organized discounts 4.1 Rent Seeking (organizational free riding) 4.2 Corruption ( organized rent seeking) 4.3 Conspiracy (organized indirect theft) 4.4 Extortion (Organized direct theft) 4.5 War (organized violence) (Note: almost there. I am trying to tie property rights to trust (velocity) )

  • THE ORIGINS OF PROPERTY AS THE PROHIBITION OF DISCOUNTS (profound) From Property

    THE ORIGINS OF PROPERTY AS THE PROHIBITION OF DISCOUNTS

    (profound)

    From Property to Private Property, High Trust Private Property, and Anarchic High Trust Private Property.

    1. Community Property is the result of the partial suppression of discounts

    1.1 Violence (asymmetry of force)

    2. Private property is the result of additional suppression of indirect discounts

    Traditional Family, Nuclear Family

    2.1 Theft (asymmetry of control)

    2.2 Fraud (false information)

    3. High Trust Private Property is the RESULT of total Suppression of Personal Discounts.

    Absolute Nuclear Family

    3.1 Free Riding (using externalities for self benefit)

    3.1 Omission (Omitting information)

    3.2 Obscurantism (Obscuring information)

    3.3 Obstruction (Inhibiting someone else’s transaction)

    3.4 Externalization (externalizing costs of any transaction)

    3.5 Socializing Losses (externalization to commons)

    3.6 Privatizing Gains (appropriation of commons)

    4. Anarchic High Trust Private Property is Result of the total suppression of organized discounts

    4.1 Rent Seeking (organizational free riding)

    4.2 Corruption ( organized rent seeking)

    4.3 Conspiracy (organized indirect theft)

    4.4 Extortion (Organized direct theft)

    4.5 War (organized violence)

    (Note: almost there. I am trying to tie property rights to trust (velocity) )

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-25 14:47:00 UTC

  • Propertarianism : The Formal Logic of Cooperation

    (There we go. Today was a milestone.) Universally descriptive, universally commensurable logic of ethics. We no longer must rely on moral or rational argument in advocacy of moral, ethical or political preference. We can rely on ratio-scientific argument under which illustrates the multitude of thefts, or suppression of thefts, being conducted in any action. Propertarianism, the logic of property, is the formal logic of cooperation.

    • Terminology
    • Grammar
    • Compactness
    • Explanatory power
    • Testability and Falsifiability (via Praxeology)

    Praxeology, when corrected under Propertarianism by the enumeration of all types of property demonstrated by human action, is scientific because it consists in the universal, test of rationality of incentives, by means of sympathetic experience. Private Property as the result of the suppression of discounts. The suppression of discounts leaves the only possible human cooperation as fully informed, warranted, voluntary exchange. And the only possible means of competition, the quality and price of the production of goods and services. Cause. Private property is a consequence of the organized application of violence for the purpose of suppressing all discounts, in all human action, regardless of sphere.

  • Propertarianism : The Formal Logic of Cooperation

    (There we go. Today was a milestone.) Universally descriptive, universally commensurable logic of ethics. We no longer must rely on moral or rational argument in advocacy of moral, ethical or political preference. We can rely on ratio-scientific argument under which illustrates the multitude of thefts, or suppression of thefts, being conducted in any action. Propertarianism, the logic of property, is the formal logic of cooperation.

    • Terminology
    • Grammar
    • Compactness
    • Explanatory power
    • Testability and Falsifiability (via Praxeology)

    Praxeology, when corrected under Propertarianism by the enumeration of all types of property demonstrated by human action, is scientific because it consists in the universal, test of rationality of incentives, by means of sympathetic experience. Private Property as the result of the suppression of discounts. The suppression of discounts leaves the only possible human cooperation as fully informed, warranted, voluntary exchange. And the only possible means of competition, the quality and price of the production of goods and services. Cause. Private property is a consequence of the organized application of violence for the purpose of suppressing all discounts, in all human action, regardless of sphere.

  • “PROPERTARIANISM: THE FORMAL LOGIC OF COOPERATION” (There we go. Today was a mil

    “PROPERTARIANISM: THE FORMAL LOGIC OF COOPERATION”

    (There we go. Today was a milestone.)

    Universally descriptive, universally commensurable logic of ethics. We no longer must rely on moral or rational argument in advocacy of moral, ethical or political preference. We can rely on ratio-scientific argument under which illustrates the multitude of thefts, or suppression of thefts, being conducted in any action.

    Propertarianism, the logic of property, is the formal logic of cooperation.

    Terminology

    Grammar

    Compactness

    Explanatory power

    Testability and Falsifiability (via Praxeology)

    Praxeology, when corrected under Propertarianism by the enumeration of all types of property demonstrated by human action, is scientific because it consists in the universal, test of rationality of incentives, by means of sympathetic experience.

    Private Property as the result of the suppression of discounts.

    The suppression of discounts leaves the only possible human cooperation as fully informed, warranted, voluntary exchange. And the only possible means of competition, the quality and price of the production of goods and services.

    Cause. Private property is a consequence of the organized application of violence for the purpose of suppressing all discounts, in all human action, regardless of sphere.

    (Fk… Libertarians did it. We did it. First new ‘math’ in over a century. The solution to the formal logic of the social sciences. Durkhiem, Weber, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Hoppe and …me.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-24 07:16:00 UTC

  • Lester came very close to identifying descriptive ethics of the high trust socie

    http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Leviathan-Liberty-Welfare-Reconciled/dp/0312234163Jan Lester came very close to identifying descriptive ethics of the high trust society we call northwestern european aristocratic egalitarian – the North Sea Peoples.

    He came very close. Closer than anyone else.

    And, regardless of criticisms we can lay against his work, we must acknowledge that he came very close to the correct answer: a universally descriptive system of ethics.

    Now, it has become clear, that liberty is in fact incompatible with sociobiological diversity. And I am fairly sure that it’s impossible to refute that criticism. As such, while liberty is not incompatible within a tribe of closely related people, it is entirely incompatible within diverse polity, that has access to political power, whether by bureaucratic or propertarian means.

    That said, Lester’s arguments are informative, as are Hoppe’s, for those homogenous societies with indifferent sociobiological capabilities, reproductive structures, and structures of production.

    Even if they do not help us with societies in conflict on their borders with competing social orders, or within their borders with competing moral and sociobiological orders.

    The fact that lester’s ‘externalization of costs’ is half-right, is still better than everyone else’s arguments, prior to Propertarianism’s universally descriptive ethics.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-23 08:34:00 UTC

  • HIGH TRUST PRIVATE PROPERTY AS THE SUPPRESSION OF DISCOUNTS Forcing **ALL** comp

    HIGH TRUST PRIVATE PROPERTY AS THE SUPPRESSION OF DISCOUNTS

    Forcing **ALL** competition into the market for goods and services.

    We do not need the monopoly state to suppress discounts.

    Government can consist of simple rules – a contract. A constitution.

    We can use insurance companies as our insurer of last resort, and the ‘government’ for the purpose of constructing commons.

    What discounts do you prohibit as violation of rights?

    I. SIMPLE THEFT

    1. Violence (asymmetry of force)

    2. Theft (asymmetry of control)

    II. COMPLEX THEFT

    3. Fraud (false information)

    4. Omission (Omitting information)

    5. Obstruction (Inhibiting someone else’s transaction)

    6. Externalization (externalizing costs of any transaction)

    7. Free Riding (using externalities for self benefit)

    8. Socializing Losses (externalization to commons)

    9. Privatizing Gains (appropriation of commons)

    III. ORGANIZED THEFT

    10. Rent Seeking (organizational free riding)

    11. Corruption ( organized rent seeking)

    12. Conspiracy (organized indirect theft)

    13. Extortion (Organized direct theft)

    14. War (organized violence)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-23 03:40:00 UTC