Difference between revisions of "Philosophical Delusions"

From Critiques Of Libertarianism
Jump to: navigation, search
 
Line 16: Line 16:
 
down to parlor tricks to try to convince people that the foundations are solid.
 
down to parlor tricks to try to convince people that the foundations are solid.
 
== Post Modernism ==
 
== Post Modernism ==
Too often an example of greedy reductionism.
+
Too often an example of greedy reductionism|greedy reductionism]].
 
== Ought ==
 
== Ought ==
 
Hume's fallacy of the derivation of ought from is still catches most people.  There is no direct ought: there is only what we desire.  We can make consequentialist arguments based on our desires: because we want something, we ought to do something else if we want to get it.
 
Hume's fallacy of the derivation of ought from is still catches most people.  There is no direct ought: there is only what we desire.  We can make consequentialist arguments based on our desires: because we want something, we ought to do something else if we want to get it.
 
== Natural Rights ==
 
== Natural Rights ==
 
Natural rights were a political trick invented to oppose the idea of rights of kings.  The populace at large didn't have rights of kings, but they certainly could claim to have natural rights.
 
Natural rights were a political trick invented to oppose the idea of rights of kings.  The populace at large didn't have rights of kings, but they certainly could claim to have natural rights.

Latest revision as of 13:30, 17 February 2019