Post by johnbc on Oct 21, 2020 5:07:30 GMT
Many criticisms are directed at anarcho-capitalism for supposedly being only concerned with the market. This is incorrect. Anarchists in general are concerned with the practical part of the system and reject aggression as a given philosophical point, without bothering to make it explicit.
Anarchism is concerned with the question “how are we going to live with each other?”, but this question depends on “who are we?”, “how do we know that?” and “how should we live?”. Such responses lead to a single conclusion: anarchy.
It will become clear to the most knowledgeable that almost all libertarian arguments are direct from Hoppe’s objectivism and argumentative ethics. My philosophy is objectivist from the root and core until its final consequences, and although Ayn Rand did not believe in the possibility of the absence of a state, her position was because she did not believe in the possibility of private production of justice and security, not for any philosophical objection.
Anarcho-capitalism is a logical conclusion, and although logic and reality may be uncomfortable or strange for some, wishing otherwise does not change anything. Aggression is logically and rationally unacceptable and attacks the basis of what it is to be a human, it is the most vile and dehumanizing act possibly conceivable, and it must be condemned in all its forms, including in the form of state aggression.
This is what Aryn Rand referred to as a “Harmony of Interests”. Everyone must navigate the world and life in a non-aggressive way and looking for their measure of accomplishment as they conceive it, and anarcho-capitalism is the most suitable system for this because it allows the greatest chances and tools for individuals to achieve its realization.
But the fulfillment of the individual is the responsibility of himself, not of others, and in truth many will not seek happiness and many will not find it, which is largely caused by erroneous ideas about philosophy and life disseminated among individuals, ideas that distance them from the search for values and ethical coexistence.
Reality and truth exist independently of our existence, it is up to us to discover them, and such an undertaking for discovery can only be done by humans. We can only analyze reality with our senses and cognition, and reality will always triumph over what we can think of it. Ethically, we must meet humanity’s minimal condition, rationality, that is, any act that denies rationality or the existence of its being or that of another is immoral, which again means that aggression is not acceptable. Since we have no “debts” or “missions”, it remains that the only search for our life can be happiness, the realization of our values and pursuits as humans, and the only system compatible with this way of living is anarcho-capitalism.
Anarchism is concerned with the question “how are we going to live with each other?”, but this question depends on “who are we?”, “how do we know that?” and “how should we live?”. Such responses lead to a single conclusion: anarchy.
It will become clear to the most knowledgeable that almost all libertarian arguments are direct from Hoppe’s objectivism and argumentative ethics. My philosophy is objectivist from the root and core until its final consequences, and although Ayn Rand did not believe in the possibility of the absence of a state, her position was because she did not believe in the possibility of private production of justice and security, not for any philosophical objection.
Anarcho-capitalism is a logical conclusion, and although logic and reality may be uncomfortable or strange for some, wishing otherwise does not change anything. Aggression is logically and rationally unacceptable and attacks the basis of what it is to be a human, it is the most vile and dehumanizing act possibly conceivable, and it must be condemned in all its forms, including in the form of state aggression.
This is what Aryn Rand referred to as a “Harmony of Interests”. Everyone must navigate the world and life in a non-aggressive way and looking for their measure of accomplishment as they conceive it, and anarcho-capitalism is the most suitable system for this because it allows the greatest chances and tools for individuals to achieve its realization.
But the fulfillment of the individual is the responsibility of himself, not of others, and in truth many will not seek happiness and many will not find it, which is largely caused by erroneous ideas about philosophy and life disseminated among individuals, ideas that distance them from the search for values and ethical coexistence.
Reality and truth exist independently of our existence, it is up to us to discover them, and such an undertaking for discovery can only be done by humans. We can only analyze reality with our senses and cognition, and reality will always triumph over what we can think of it. Ethically, we must meet humanity’s minimal condition, rationality, that is, any act that denies rationality or the existence of its being or that of another is immoral, which again means that aggression is not acceptable. Since we have no “debts” or “missions”, it remains that the only search for our life can be happiness, the realization of our values and pursuits as humans, and the only system compatible with this way of living is anarcho-capitalism.
