Mises as Model | Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Presented by Jörg Guido Hülsmann at the 2009 Mises University. Recorded 1 August 2009 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama.

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[fluff125]

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[freelancer657]

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[ogello]

economics is a virtue in life because it speaks of not to look only at immediate concerns, but to have a larger view on man and society as a whole.

great thinking good frasing. This is what LVM loved

[AFRIKTODAY]

@brainpolice2

I totally agree with you; and you seem to have red Human action, just like me!

[brainpolice2]

My original point is completely in conjunction with methodological individualism. Mises's critique of polylogism applies just as well to racialist views as it does to traditional marxism. The treatment of social groups as if they have their own logical structure of the mind, and the overgeneralization of these groups based on correlative statistics, goes against the spirit of Mises's epistemology. There are no *innate* group traits of the kind that race-realists claim.

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@brainpolice2

Of course, I agree with that!

But can you please stop copying and paraphrasing Rothbard and the Austrian methodology? Please, think about what you read and substract your own understanding of whatever is said by these people.

[brainpolice2]

Methodological individualism doesn't make the atomistic claim that groups don't exist, only that they cannot be described as anything other than an aggregation of individuals.

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@brainpolice2

What are you talking about?

Methodical individualism and group is an oxymoron, an antithesis! They don't go together! Egalitarianism is a fallacy, it is misguided and plain wrong regardless of the targeted groups!

[brainpolice2]

@AFRIKTODAY Which is to say that proclaiming generalized anti-egalitarian statements about these groups in the first place violates methodological individualism. That's my point.

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@brainpolice2

Dude, please learn how to read! My point of contention stem upon the entity from which to draw the definition of natural elite. In one of your analysis you pointed that there are difference in ability and capability at the racial or gender level; which I am totally opposed to! I doubt you know anything about Austrian economics because the foundation of praxeology is indeed the individual. Only individuals differ in their abilities, not group or aggregates! That's my point!

[brainpolice2]

Egalitarianism refers to a multitude of different groups that tend to oppose aristocratic or plutocratic modes of organization (which are hardly "the natural order). There are egalitarians ranging from statists to anarchists. In either case, the premise that whoever is sucessful is intrinsically superior and there is a "natural elite" that is 500% better than everyone else is just as absurd as proclaiming everyone to be naturally equal in ability.

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@brainpolice2

Develop your point please! Egalitarianism, as far as my understanding of the subject is concerned, main goal is to shortcut the natural inequality within society through the redistribution of wealth by a welfare state, thus a justification for big government. Equality is not even the issue here but rather the "justification for a powerful government whose main role is to spread the wealth around"> I think Rothbard had it nailed and I don't really know what you are talking about!