Hoppe on "The Economics and Ethics of Private Property"

An interesting talk by Hans-Hermann Hoppe about his book "The Economics and Ethics of Private Property".
From: http://www.mises.org

Recorded at the Authors Forum, Austrian Scholars Conference (Auburn, Alabama) on 03/16/2006 [16:41 the original one]

For reasons of a limited length I had to cut some parts, namely, the beginning and a short excerpt that speaks about the chapters of his book.
I have transcripted the previous part of the beginning of the video:

"What I want to do here in a few minutes is just to say a few words about my writings in the book on pure ethics and then end with a few remarks about applications. What I try to accomplish in the book is to present some axiomatic foundation of ethics in the same way as Mises presents an axiomatic foundation of economics"

Hope you enjoy it

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[Incarnadine64]

The right to enter into a contract ("social" or otherwise) is built on the idea of individual sovereignty. How could we take a contract seriously if the people who enter it don't have the rights to themselves? If you accept the idea that people can enter into contracts, you necessarily accept self-ownership.

[NMCB3]

Bellator,rights are inherent in the nature of man,subject to the natural law as is everything in the universe not delusions.They can be suppressed by force but they still exist.They are not entitlements but merely part of your natural rights.For instance you own yourself this ownership comes from the nature of being human,not from some democratically elected Representatives and their laws Moreover private property existed before the state as did natural law.Your statist argument is full of holes

[Moragauth]

@john42t Hehe.

Natural rights aren't specific to right or left.

[john42t]

@Moragauth That'll be too left-wing for him. Hang on, did you just called him a leftists? :-)

[atypicalguy]

I agree with most of what the Austrians say but I am not convinced that there is such a thing as natural rights or even rights in general. At best, we can say that there is power inherent within the individual and competition among people when powers conflict. The state is just the result of this competition.

[Moragauth]

Burn.

[Moragauth]

Typical leftist hogwash. "You've no idea about x in the actual world (as if I have a fucking clue)" :)

[Moragauth]

Assertion piled upon assertion. Prove that property comes from state enforcement and that it must. Your own "arguments" are solipsistic and delusional yackity yackity yack.

[Moragauth]

A pity Hoppe isn't arguing for natural rights.

[Bellator656]

Sovereignty does not derive from the individual, but rather it is imposed on others in the form of laws. The term 'social contract' is actually somewhat misleading, I tend to use it to describe the political system of democracy, not as a reference to a conventional contract (although there are elements of that too).