Karun Philip wrote: To see Eastern religions as non-materialistic is also to miss the point. ... Karun, I think this is very valuable, but I am wondering if...
Stephen Block
stephenb@...
Apr 1, 2001 8:45 pm
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Stephen -- This reads like more unfounded negative image-making of Hayek based on nothing but the writers negative feelings about Hayek. Wouldn't it be better...
Greg Ransom
gregransom@...
Apr 1, 2001 8:54 pm
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... Oh no, it *is* the best example. The principal reason to be an "immoralist"--to think we can judge each case independently, rather than abdicating our...
Brad DeLong
delong@...
Apr 2, 2001 4:23 am
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Northern Trust Economic Research http://www.ntrs.com/library/econ_research/weekly/us/010330.html ... Positive Economic Commentary The US Economy: A Textbook...
Greg Ransom
gregransom@...
Apr 2, 2001 5:44 am
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On Hayek and Indian development, I respectfully suggest that you look at the Indian economist Shenoy (Sudha's father) who was a student of Hayek at the LSE. On...
Peter Boettke
pboettke@...
Apr 2, 2001 6:24 pm
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Greg, Gosh, I wasn't going to pursue this any further, but... Yes, it was Keynes who used the term "immoralism" in relation to Moore's perspective and the...
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
rosserjb@...
Apr 2, 2001 6:27 pm
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Barkley, again you have twisted things in pretzels (and made up things) in order to get where you want to go, and all in the most misleading and unconvincing...
Greg Ransom
gregransom@...
Apr 2, 2001 6:56 pm
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... Let me suggest that the following passage is key to understanding Hayek's position: "The conscientious and courageous may on rare occasions decide to brave...
Gordon Sollars
gsollars@...
Apr 3, 2001 2:03 am
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Brad DeLong argues that the Huck Finn example *is* a good one to defend philosophical "immoralism." Without it, "you are no longer capable of behaving...
Roger Koppl
koppl@...
Apr 3, 2001 2:04 am
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... his guess that Hayek may have personally abhorred homosexuality and even thought it immoral. What's the big deal? What "spin"? What "pretzels"? ...
Greg Ransom
gregransom@...
Apr 3, 2001 2:28 am
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Friends: Four notes on recent discussions: 1. I have found one instance of Hayek's use of Keynes's "Two Memoirs" in LLL, Vol. 1, pp. 25-26. But there seems to...
Paul Varnell
Pvarnell@...
Apr 3, 2001 4:51 am
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But not surprising. At Cambridge, some students ... N.S. Palmer ... Unfortunately the philosophers who understood him (if any indeed did) were no more able to...
Rafe Champion
rchamp@...
Apr 3, 2001 4:23 pm
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... REAL quick reply, since I don't have time for anything lengthy (but cannot resist at least something short): No one on this list, and certainly not I, has...
Edward Feser
edwardfeser@...
Apr 3, 2001 4:26 pm
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I myself find Wittgenstein's later work perfectly comprehensible -- as do a number of other philosopher with whom I've been associated (e.g. Larry Wright)....
Greg Ransom
gregransom@...
Apr 3, 2001 4:49 pm
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In an earlier message, I seemed to include Barkley among those people who "have a bone to pick" with Hayek. Barkley assures me privately that he himself has...
Greg Ransom
gregransom@...
Apr 3, 2001 8:27 pm
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For the record, I accept this apology. There have been some heated offlist exchanges. It is clear that there are some strong disagreements over how to...
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
rosserjb@...
Apr 3, 2001 9:02 pm
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... Yes I do--I'm having a Kantian moment. You behave morally only if you do it because you know it is the morally right thing to do. Doing it because it is...
Brad DeLong
delong@...
Apr 4, 2001 5:43 am
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... something to the idea that Wittgenstein and Hayek are on the same road. You didn't mention it, but Hayek's critique of economic planning reminds me of one...
Greg Ransom
gregransom@...
Apr 4, 2001 7:10 am
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Now you've lost me, Brad. I see a stranded motorist by the side of the road. I help him. Someone asks why. "He needed help," I reply. I should think this a...
Roger Koppl
koppl@...
Apr 4, 2001 1:53 pm
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In exploring some shared themes in Hayek and Wittgenstein, Greg Ransom ... Ian Jarvie has argued that Popper took a little recognised "social turn" in "Logik...
Rafe Champion
rchamp@...
Apr 4, 2001 1:57 pm
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... Isn't this a semantic difficulty? Kant was explaining what it means for an individual to act morally. Did Hayek ever address this? I don't think so....
Alan G. Isaac
aisaac@...
Apr 4, 2001 6:04 pm
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... Kant says it is not morally *estimable* or praise-worthy. You are acting in compliance with duty, but not, as he says, "from duty," or out of respect for...
kevin quinn
kquinn54@...
Apr 4, 2001 11:15 pm
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Yes, give Popper his due, but let's not overdo it. It is going overboard to suggest that Popper's discussions of the social and institutional aspects science...
Greg Ransom
gregransom@...
Apr 5, 2001 2:27 am
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... They don't transfer your act into an immoral one. But they do keep your behavior from being moral: you are no longer capable of behaving morally. As I...
Brad DeLong
delong@...
Apr 5, 2001 6:00 am
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I agree, in substance, with what Greg Ransom says about Popper. It is true that he often went of his way to stress what his ideas were, when he first published...
Dimitris Dimitrakos
ddim@...
Apr 5, 2001 6:38 am
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Hacohen's book on Popper indicates that he was not always good at returning favours or acknowledging sources. At the same time, some of his scholarship is...
Rafe Champion
rchamp@...
Apr 5, 2001 1:39 pm
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While there are no doubt ways in which he anticipates Kuhn and Wittgenstein, isn't it nevertheless true that the whole spirit of Popper's falsificationist...
kevin quinn
kquinn54@...
Apr 5, 2001 6:09 pm
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From Don Lavoie: I have found the very fact that homophobia is being debated in this list to be a good thing, even though the quality of the discussion has not...
Greg Ransom
gregransom@...
Apr 5, 2001 6:19 pm
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... Well, only if one thinks that "homophobes" are now in charge, and are planning a pogrom soon. Since this idea is obviously absurd, I think Ed has a point,...
Gene Callahan
gcallah@...
Apr 5, 2001 6:49 pm
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Popper's Logic of Falsification involves abstract existential statements that are indeed theory-independent. However, Popper from the beginning (i.e., Logik...
