Well, it’s not true that I have not considered what a market is; I just wasn’t certain exactly what you intended by your question. One reason for this...
I'm appreciative of your comments. I'm not entirely certain what you mean by 'kinds' of markets. I understand a 'market' to be a process, in which the...
No, you must do your own hard work. Formulate your objections clearly and thoroughly, if you want them responded to (which I am happy to do). At least...
Yes, that is what I have done. I have argued that the protections which the non-totalitarian Statist believes constrain the State's power are unfit fo...
That's fine. But Hobbes does speak of the authority that is granted to the State as being absolute (which is why I have described Hobbes as a totalita...
What is the subject of the non-existence? Suppose you say 'Socrates dies'. This means that there exists a thing, Socrates, which dies. But we cannot u...
An odd observation. I don't believe I ever use the word 'authoritarianism'. In the phrase you quote, I am attempting to reconstruct Hobbes's position....
Roads, just as with all other goods and services (including rights-enforcement, dispute-resolution, military defence and money) would be produced priv...
Thank you for your comments. I just have one or two thoughts. One problem with this, if we are taking incentives seriously, is: How do you make it suc...
Maybe it is because I perceive this from a non-Western perspective, but the entire issue strikes me as a storm in a teacup from the start. Why are the...
That's right, and the beggar to whom I give a coin is richer than the beggar who has no coin. So I suppose the coined beggar is now 'rich', and thereb...
My question, again, is: if, as you insist, being wealthy definitively bars one from salvation, and that this is what is implied by Jesus's own words, ...
Well, grace is not 'garnered'; that is why it is grace. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is t...
Logically, this actually does not follow. Jesus did not say that the wealthy certainly do not go to heaven, only that it is difficult for them to do s...
You could argue all of that, of course, but that doesn't make it plausible. The canon was already long established at Nicaea 325, the first of the ecu...
Taxation is not political? You are bemoaning capitlaism, are you not? Invasions of capitalism (by which I mean the 'free market', the peaceful exchang...
You know virtually zero about me. Why are you being personal? This is a philosophy forum. Careless eisegesis. This is not a proof-text for Jesus's mor...
Is your suggestion that self-professed Christians do not engage in charity work? In any case, although Christians are called to give alms, that is not...
Yes, in classical Christian theism there is a fundamental, ontological distinction between God and creatures (including angelic beings), which maps on...
From Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty: It is also particularly important for the State to make its rule seem inevitable: even if its reign is dislik...
Whether or not that is the case, Aquinas is clear and systematic, at the very least. Whatever else he may be, he is not an obscurantist. When he is wr...
For the sake of clarity, Aquinas does not believe that God (who is goodness itself) and being are coterminous - that would be panentheism or pantheism...
This seems to be largely a linguistic issue, but from my understanding of English, 'property' and 'ownership' are essentially coterminous. To say that...
The closest thing would be Gerry Cohen, especially Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality. Like so many works of political philosophy, I disagree with ...
'Ownership' is a statement about property rights. We are not just talking about de facto possession here; a thief who pinches my purse now physically ...
I am not sure that this is the case. While libertarians do indeed hold to self-ownership and the non-aggression principle, they are not simply taken a...
I'm sorry, but you are making a storm in a teacup here. This wasn't even a debate or discussion post until you unearthed it after I don't know how man...
I really don't think it's necessary to get quite this prickly. I have not attacked Chomsky. My query was just that - a query: It sounds as if the answ...
Not gibberish, just vague. Take 'power' for instance: 'power', like other foundational concepts in political philosophy, like liberty, rights, obligat...
What I bemoaned was the lack of a work of systematic political philosophy in which the reader is led to anarcho-syndicalism from a set of first princi...
That sounds wonderful - the problem is that this is a statement which would also be endorsed by figures who arrive at radically different conclusions ...
Let’s forget the analogy. I used it as an illustration of one possible interpretation of your position which turned out not to be the correct one. We ...
But you used the word 'paradise' right there. This actually isn’t true. Iceland was anarchistic for the first three centuries of its existence, and ha...
I said that I would happily concede the triviality of the rationality axiom if you concede its truth. I was hoping that you would cooperate with this ...
Let me use an analogy. I once witnessed a debate between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant. The Catholic argued that his church, the Roman church, is ...
Simple: I have defined ‘aggression’ in a particular way, in a way that is consonant with how the term is conventionally used in the libertarian tradit...
No, for the simple reason that libertarianism is non-utopian (or non-paradisiacal). I don’t know what is best for you, I don’t know how you should be ...
Since you seem not to see the significance of some of the concepts of which I have made use in this discussion (I don’t mean this in a condescending w...
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