Difference between revisions of "Philosophical Delusions"
From Critiques Of Libertarianism
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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 == | ||
| + | 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 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. | ||
