Curt Doolittle

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  • Wikipedia Entry on Propertarianism

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PropertarianismWIKI! – Wikipedia Entry on Propertarianism

    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-24 13:50:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-03-24 13:23:00 UTC

  • A FRIENDLY NOTICE TO RECENT FB FRIENDS Please understand what I do. I write poli

    A FRIENDLY NOTICE TO RECENT FB FRIENDS

    Please understand what I do. I write political philosophy. Conservative Libertarian political philosophy. This is not a game. It is not recreation. It is what I do. And I consider it the most important thing that I can do.

    Facebook is a scratch-pad. A notebook where I try ideas that I’m currently thinking about. And It’s how I keep in touch with the other people who do the same. An argument is a philosophical proposition structured in statements. You can think of them as math problems of a sort. Sometimes, you have to work those statements out. Just like you work out math problems. I don’t know sometimes how those arguments will work out until I make them. FB is a place where I can make them and where, if I make some big mistake, someone will point it out to me. Most of the time I’m making similar arguments but trying to make them more simple and easier to understand. I even succeed at it sometimes. 🙂

    I belong to organizations that are commonly called ‘think tanks’ that conduct a research program called “Anarcho Capitalism” in which we try to determine how to replace the monopoly we call the state and its bureaucratic government with institutions that are subject to competition and therefore less subject to systemic corruption. This is a noble cause. I am proud of my contributions to this cause. I am proud of what we accomplished over the past century.

    But you don’t have to agree with what I write, even on the odd chance you understand it. And I would never ask you to. It’s OK with me. I am not trying to create popular music or god forbid, run for office. I’m trying to find a solution to a pretty important problem that’s at least 2500 years old.

    But I value your friendship in real life, even if you are uncomfortable with radical political philosophy, and radical conservative philosophy at that. So please try to understand that there are some of us who think that our current system of government is based on concepts that are no more sensible than the religious mysticism it replaced. And that there are a few of us out here playing the role of Galileo, Hume, Darwin and Weber in the hope of finding rational solution to the problem of human cooperation that we call ‘government’.

    And so the only thing I’ll ask you to look at me and my work through that lens. Even if you think I’m wrong. Because I acknowledge that I might be. 🙂

    (It’s just unlikely) 😉

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-15 15:49:00 UTC

  • COMPLETE DEFINITION OF PROPERTY An Excerpt from “Propertarianism” that defines p

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/01/15/the-complete-definition-of-property-excerpt-from-propertarianism/A COMPLETE DEFINITION OF PROPERTY

    An Excerpt from “Propertarianism” that defines property descriptively – as people actually use it in various societies. This definition is necessary to repair both Praxeology and Rothbardian Ethics for heterogeneous societies with greater than aristocratic enfranchisement.

    (Knowledgable Libertarians welcome to give thoughtful feedback – thanks.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-15 08:33:00 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.

  • FRIENDS: PHONE PROBLEMS FOR A FEW DAYS I have lost my Ukranian sim card while tr

    FRIENDS: PHONE PROBLEMS FOR A FEW DAYS

    I have lost my Ukranian sim card while traveling and need to get it replaced. Right now I have a temp number until I can get it changed to the old one.

    Thanks!

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-07 11:40:00 UTC

  • Happy Birthday!

    Happy Birthday!

    Source date (UTC): 2013-01-07 07:24:00 UTC

  • Love you man. 🙂 Merry Christmas !

    Love you man. 🙂

    Merry Christmas !

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-25 13:43:00 UTC

  • Love you Shan. Merry Christmas. 🙂

    Love you Shan.

    Merry Christmas. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-25 13:39:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2012-12-25 12:01:00 UTC