All Entries Tagged With: "philosophy"
Aristotle on Friendship
Friendship, says Aristotle, comes in different forms and serves different purposes. A. Some friendships are grounded solely in considerations of sensual pleasure. Such pleasure is ephemeral, however, and the friendship lasts only as long as the pleasure is reciprocated and forthcoming. B. Some friendships are based on utility. Two people befriend each other because they [...]
The Immorality of the Social Contract
by Alexandros A on Wed, 2012/04/18, Journal of Antistatist Studies Today there has been a lot of talk about a “Social Contract”. A contract that binds all people and is supposedly something all people must adhere to or else suffer punishment by the state. The Social Contract was a theory first espoused by political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau [...]
Antistate of the Union – Government is not society, it is the cancer killing it.
by M. D. Roe on Thu, 2012/04/19, Journal of Antistatist Studies I address the nation, alien to it. With much apprehension I do this for I question the very foundation of its singularity. I am not impressed by its guns, its agents of enforcement, its character, its “concern” for the “well-being” of its citizens, contortion of economic [...]
Arguing with Statists: How Statism Obfuscates Good Intent with Political Objectives
Obfuscation of intent in political objectives is a hallmark of statism and one of the primary methods by which statist politicians will push forward their own careers or the statist agenda, cogently or not. This occurs on both the left and the right of the statist political spectrum. These misunderstandings in intent also happen to [...]
The Love of Liberty and the Impulse to Coercion: Bertrand Russell Revisited
by Richard Wall “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of [...]
Bertrand Russull’s Fact and Fiction
Bertrand Russell (1872—1970) was a master at seeing and cutting through humbug and hypocrisy, and was a relentless seeker after truth. In his 1962 collection of essays entitled, Fact and Fiction he wrote, “It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth,” and in his [...]
