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September 26 2011
Freedomain Radio -- #1335 Sunday Show April 19 2009 - 00:49:00 Virtue Is A Relationship
"Virtue is a relationship. And it is a relationship where both parties need to bring value to the table – like any economic relationship. If there are rules, so to speak, like UPB ... we are not authentic if we are following rules – even if those rules are rational – we are not authentic if we are following them because they are rules ... The rules have to be alive, the rules have to be sensitive, the rules have to be reciprocal, the rules have to be relational. People will constantly try to put hooks in you based on their perception that you will obey abstract rules in a vacuum – despite what they, no matter what they do. Rules bow to evidence. Empiricism trumps abstractions every time. That's why people's behaviour matters a lot more than what they say. It's the constant reciprocity of how other people are treating you that is the challenge of ethics. How is the other person treating me now? How is the other person treating me now? How is the other person treating me now?"
September 15 2011
Freedomain Radio -- #1467 A Freedomain Radio Class Analysis (MP3)
"Everybody gets this."
July 05 2011
May 30 2011
Wikipedia -- Stefan Molyneux
“In order to have thoughts of kindness for the suffering of others, you have to have accepted your own suffering. In order to have empathy for others, we have to have empathy for ourselves. Because if we are avoiding our own suffering or the suffering we have experienced, then we will inevitably avoid the suffering of others. That which we reject in ourselves we inevitably reject in others.”May 28 2011
YouTube -- Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio on the Max Keiser TV Show!
'A tour through historical and contemporary economic issues through the lens of rational philosophy.' -- "There are two ways that societies or individuals change: They have an intellectual or moral or philosophical enlightenment where they rise above the everyday moments of their disasters and look at the big picture. The other is that they simply hit a wall..."
'A tour through historical and contemporary economic issues through the lens of rational philosophy.' -- "There are two ways that societies or individuals change: They have an intellectual or moral or philosophical enlightenment where they rise above the everyday moments of their disasters and look at the big picture. The other is that they simply hit a wall..."
May 16 2011
IMDb -- The Matrix (1999) - Memorable quotes
'Morpheus: Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.'April 29 2011
Freedomain Radio -- #1295 The Rise of Corruption Part 3 - Avoiding Self-Knowledge (MP3)
"The only knowledge we avoid is self-knowledge. Everybody already knows. When you say the state is violence, everybody already knows it. The reason we know that everybody knows it is the speed at which they get upset. If they didn't already know the implications, they wouldn't get upset. Statism is violence; there is no 'God'. You have to work hard to avoid that knowledge because it's so obvious. So what are they avoiding? They are avoiding self-knowledge: knowledge they already possess about themselves, about society, about their friends and family, about truth, about virtue, about integrity, about courage. All of these things. So when you speak an idea and people get upset, the knowledge that they are avoiding is not what you're saying but what they already know. They are reacting not to you but to themselves. If you have to conform to other people's bigotries or face attack and rejection, that's not a relationship, it's a cult. And everybody knows that."
April 28 2011
Freedomain Radio -- #1396 Philosophy, Dislike, Opposition (MP3)
"We're bringing light into the kitchen and the cockroaches don't like it. That's the counterfeit-detection machine which is what philosophy is... Nobody wants to think of themselves as bad. Everybody wants to be good and everybody believes they are good. But when you say here's how to be good in practice – in the moment – they run screaming. -- ...to have the false-self self-praise of believing yourself to be virtuous but without actually letting the true-self work the levers of virtue in the real world... The hypocrisies and the pomposity and self-righteousness and self-praise that all goes along with a dedication to abstract virtue... There are no greater opponents to a set of ethics than those who steadfastly pursue them in the abstract and hysterically and angrily reject them in the real, in the present. They discredit their ethics and ethics in general by resolutely opposing the enactment of their values. It's not just their values that they discredit, it's values as a whole."
April 27 2011
Freedomain Radio -- #1163 Debating Decisions (MP3)
Gisted/Quoted -- On the Mecosystem: When you demonize the mecosystem, all you do is project it into the world, into things which other people control, into things which you can buy from people to gain their approval and so delay inevitable self-attacks. -- On Happiness: "The only way that I know of to gain the greatest happiness is to serve mankind in the cause of the truth."
March 27 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: 'Anarchy Q and A': The Freedomain Radio presentation at the Agora I/O Conference
You cannot argue against anarchy. You cannot argue against voluntaryism without using voluntaryism. You cannot argue against the non-aggression principle without using the non-aggression principle. You cannot argue against property without using property. You cannot argue against ethics without using ethics. You cannot argue against the scientific method without using the scientific method. You cannot argue against truth without using a 'truth'. You cannot argue against laws without using a 'law'. You cannot argue against rules without using a 'rule'. You cannot argue against universalization without using universalization. You cannot argue against argumentation without using argumentation. You cannot aggress against freedom without using and thus affirming the value of freedom. You cannot aggress against property without using and thus affirming the value of property. You cannot aggress against any body without using and thus affirming the value of your own body and all other bodies.
You cannot argue against anarchy. You cannot argue against voluntaryism without using voluntaryism. You cannot argue against the non-aggression principle without using the non-aggression principle. You cannot argue against property without using property. You cannot argue against ethics without using ethics. You cannot argue against the scientific method without using the scientific method. You cannot argue against truth without using a 'truth'. You cannot argue against laws without using a 'law'. You cannot argue against rules without using a 'rule'. You cannot argue against universalization without using universalization. You cannot argue against argumentation without using argumentation. You cannot aggress against freedom without using and thus affirming the value of freedom. You cannot aggress against property without using and thus affirming the value of property. You cannot aggress against any body without using and thus affirming the value of your own body and all other bodies.
March 07 2011
Thinking Critically about the Subjective-Objective Distinction by Sandra LaFave
'We should distinguish two kinds of objectivity: #1. metaphysical objectivity, and #2. epistemological objectivity. -- We also should distinguish two kinds of subjectivity: #1. metaphysical subjectivity, and #2. epistemological subjectivity. -- A claim is epistemologically subjective (or a matter of opinion) if the primary relevant evidence for determining the truth value of statements about the issue is metaphysically subjective. A claim is NOT automatically a "matter of opinion" simply because people disagree about it. People disagree about both matters of opinion AND about matters of fact. In epistemology, a statement (claim, assertion, proposition) is epistemologically objective if its truth value can be determined intersubjectively by generally-agreed methods or procedures. To say a statement is epistemologically objective is not to say the statement is true; it's just to say we could figure out a public method for determining whether or not the statement is true.'February 22 2011
Freedomain Radio -- #1149 Inner Critic: The Role-play (MP3)
'A live action example of how to take down your inner Nazi.' -- "With great power comes great responsibility."
January 17 2011
Freedomain Radio -- #119 Female Violence Part 2 (2) (MP3)
"I refuse to create a set of standards for women that is less than would apply to men. Because that would be to say that men have the strength to achieve virtue but women do not. And women do. But the degree to which we excuse women's vices and violence and corruption and control and abuse and verbal attacks – the degree to which we excuse that is the degree to which we damn women; it is the degree to which we say: you are beyond help; you cannot be helped; you poor women, you don't know what you're doing, you're not strong enough to be moral so we have to make up all these excuses for you because we think you're just that pathetic. Well, I don't think women are pathetic. I think women are incredibly strong; I think men are incredibly strong. I think that when you lower standards for people, you debilitate them, you weaken them, you destroy their moral fibre, you undermine their upright natures. So I won't accept any lower standards for women because that is the worst cruelty of all."
Freedomain Radio -- #119 Female Violence Part 2 (1) (MP3)
"I think it is something so respectful of women to say that they are subject to the same moral laws as men. If we excuse women from the just and universal application of moral laws, are we not then saying that they are a different and weaker species, a different and weaker gender? If we excuse female violence by portraying them in the role of victims – then we insult ALL women; we insult all women who ARE moral. So we really do have to avoid this notion that women are the gentler sex, and the weaker sex, and they need to be protected, and they need to be saved from themselves, and they need to be excused, and they need to be managed. Women DO NOT need to be managed. Women are subject to all the same moral laws as men, and they are EQUALLY as powerful a moral agent as men. Whatever men are capable of morally, whatever men are responsible for morally – women are capable of morally and responsible for morally."
January 13 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News: 'No Place for Violence in our Political Discourse' ?!?!?
'It's hard to get upset with people who are so deluded...' -- "Politics is violence. Government is force. 'Laws' are violence. Prison is coercion. The police kidnap and imprison. National debts are theft from the unborn. Taxes are theft. Tariffs, regulations are all the initiation of force. The State is a monopoly agency for the initiation of force in a geographical area. The State is the very definition of violence. Government is exactly what people don't want to do because they have to be forced. Whatever someone is doing when they have a gun to their head, is exactly what they don't want to do."
'It's hard to get upset with people who are so deluded...' -- "Politics is violence. Government is force. 'Laws' are violence. Prison is coercion. The police kidnap and imprison. National debts are theft from the unborn. Taxes are theft. Tariffs, regulations are all the initiation of force. The State is a monopoly agency for the initiation of force in a geographical area. The State is the very definition of violence. Government is exactly what people don't want to do because they have to be forced. Whatever someone is doing when they have a gun to their head, is exactly what they don't want to do."
January 10 2011
LewRockwell.com -- How Hans-Hermann Hoppe Became an Anarcho-Capitalist (Video)
"I discovered very quickly that there were major inconsistencies..."January 03 2011
Freedomain Radio -- #0370: Slaves, Statists And Children - Compliance Part 2 (MP3)
"When you've got a gun to your head, morality is irrelevant. The only people who are perfectly guilty are the intellectuals. The intellectuals who have the intelligence, the ability and the language skills to introspect and to deal with their own childhoods, and to stop projecting their own trauma onto the world as 'philosophical' systems. They're trying to normalize their own childhood experience by projecting it as a universal ideal thus inflicting it upon other people. And that's part of the rage that abused people have towards those who never tried to help them. My whole struggle as a communicator about family history, if you wanted to sum it up in a nutshell, is to get you to stop normalizing your histories. To stop you from thinking it wasn't so bad. To stop you from thinking it could have been worse. To stop you thinking that your parents did the best they could. Because we need to denormalize our experiences relative to reality, not relative to social norms."
January 01 2011
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Counterfeiter Payback!
'How to tell an honest debator from a counterfeiter...' -- Don't hate the sinner, hate the sin.
'How to tell an honest debator from a counterfeiter...' -- Don't hate the sinner, hate the sin.
YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: The Zen of the Zeta Jones's Ass - Email of the Year End
Also, read Plato is now a meme. -- "This is what happens when you confront people's irrationality." -- [Notice the many commenters trying to argue that to point out flaws in your opponent's argument is an attack rather than MUTUAL self-defense. To a bullybot, *everything* looks like bullying.] -- "I want give you the tools to see crazy; to see the crazy in the world so that you can avoid it. Because we can't avoid what we cannot see." -- 'Here is your counterfeit detection machine.'
Also, read Plato is now a meme. -- "This is what happens when you confront people's irrationality." -- [Notice the many commenters trying to argue that to point out flaws in your opponent's argument is an attack rather than MUTUAL self-defense. To a bullybot, *everything* looks like bullying.] -- "I want give you the tools to see crazy; to see the crazy in the world so that you can avoid it. Because we can't avoid what we cannot see." -- 'Here is your counterfeit detection machine.'
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