Austrian-minded people definitely have some pretty crazy methods, but their economic conclusions seem pretty sound to me. The problem arises when they apply their crazy methods to areas other than economics (see any libertarian theory of ethics. Crazy stuff)
“Universally Preferable Behavior” by Stefan Molyneux, “Argumentation Ethics” by Hans Hermann Hoppe, and of course Objectivism, to name the most famous ones. Generally the ones I’m referring to all try to deduce some sort of Objective Ethics and (surprise) it turns out that property rights are an inherent property of the universe and capitalism is a moral imperative.
Forgive me if you’re thinking of some other libertarians who don’t have crazy ethical theories. I didn’t mean to make gross generalizations. I’ve just observed that libertarian philosophers who consciously promote their theories of ethics tend to be of this flavor.
Austrian-minded people definitely have some pretty crazy methods, but their economic conclusions seem pretty sound to me. The problem arises when they apply their crazy methods to areas other than economics (see any libertarian theory of ethics. Crazy stuff)
There’s lots of different libertarian theories of ethics. Can you be more specific?
“Universally Preferable Behavior” by Stefan Molyneux, “Argumentation Ethics” by Hans Hermann Hoppe, and of course Objectivism, to name the most famous ones. Generally the ones I’m referring to all try to deduce some sort of Objective Ethics and (surprise) it turns out that property rights are an inherent property of the universe and capitalism is a moral imperative.
Forgive me if you’re thinking of some other libertarians who don’t have crazy ethical theories. I didn’t mean to make gross generalizations. I’ve just observed that libertarian philosophers who consciously promote their theories of ethics tend to be of this flavor.