tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715485098888094438.post1665905071207568774..comments2023-12-22T06:42:39.668-05:00Comments on Vitamin Lawyer Health Freedom Blog: Political Philosophy: Liberty or PowerHealth Freedom of Choice Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15606420362458868870noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715485098888094438.post-57858200276245133562012-02-10T13:56:27.937-05:002012-02-10T13:56:27.937-05:00Recently the issues I addressed in the Prolegomena...Recently the issues I addressed in the Prolegomena surfaced again at Tea Party Patriots, and I posted this there:<br /><br />IMHO, the primary philosophical error... many social conservatives, make is to buy into the biggest Big Lie of all: the false "reality" of collective action.<br /><br />What do I mean by that?<br />We need to start with Hegel's Dialectic, the so-called "intellectual" basis of Marxism, Progressivism, Fascism and their ilk.<br /><br />Hegel taught that the significant actors in world history were collectives, such as "classes" and "nations" and "peoples" and "corporations" -- what libertarians consider legal fictions. He further taught that these collectives obeyed certain "laws of history" that "inevitably" led to world government and socialism.<br /><br />The Reds, Nazis, Progressives et al pretend to believe that notion.<br />Those of us who believe in Freedom, however, oppose the Dialectic with the extraordinary intellectual tools bequeathed to us by such giants of philosophy as Mises, Hayek and Rothbard.<br /><br />The Free Market School is concerned with Praxiology, the study of Human Action.<br /><br />Mises' master work, Human Action is here: http://mises.org/document/3250<br /><br />We offer individual Human Action, based on the Axiom of Action ("All human action is predicated on disastisfaction.") as the only actually existing mode of action.<br /> <br />Hegel's collective laws of history do not exist. Only individual Human Action actually happens, even when some actors pretend they are acting "for" some legal fiction collective.<br /><br />Why is this relevant to your position?<br /><br />Because you think "they, as a nation, were supporting terrorists" -- that is, you accept the notion of collective action and collective guilt.<br /><br />You cannot understand Freedom by accepting the collectivists' false philosophy.Health Freedom of Choice Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15606420362458868870noreply@blogger.com