Monthly Archives: September 2009
Worth, Identity, and Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism is in vogue in Western policy. From progressive tax rates to caps on executive pay, people like to see some sort of injustice in the fact that there are rich people and poor people. I will look here at the moral and philosophical presuppositions that are necessary to an egalitarian worldview. The egalitarian tends to justify leveling and redistributive policies on the basis of equal humanity. All men are created equal, they say, so why ought so much inequality prevail in our world?…Children Of Men and the Moral Ponzi Scheme
This post is intended to expand on the philosophical ramifications of a sociocentric theology. Whether Christian or not, the only feature required for the applicability of this post is the belief in the happiness of others or of society as a whole as a final moral end…Austrian Intellectual Isolationism
The one thing that kept me for so long from the ideas of so called Austrian economics was its believers. It’s a group which isolates itself not only from mainstream economic thought, but from mainstream thought in general. Now having read most of the way through its main text, Mises’ Human Action, I can see why this might be the case.