Comments on: Wishing You P + 5E + 3H

By: Geoffrey Allan Plauche

Geoffrey Allan Plauche — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:16:31 +0000

I would love to get a pdf copy of “The Phenomenology of Virtue” and some of Annas’s other works, but unfortunately I don’t have easy access to a university library at the moment. Roderick, could you scan it (some) for me?

By: MBH

MBH — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:21:54 +0000

So you think it would be useful to amend the categories and add something like reflective equilibration or dialogue towards the unity of virtue?

By: Roderick

Roderick — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:29:19 +0000

See this piece of mine.

By: MBH

MBH — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:07:26 +0000

Kevin, is there a free version of that paper?

By: MBH

MBH — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:33:49 +0000

What an awesome paper. Doesn’t this sort of argument strengthen the case for updating Rothbard’s praxeology? I mean, where does he leave room for understanding eudaimonia? If happiness is objective and entails achievement, what category of action points to this mode of behavior?

Voluntary interpersonal exchange on the unhampered market would allow understanding eudaimonia. But it doesn’t rule out ignoring eudaimonia. If all states fell today, most people would still, more than likely, operate through subjective notions of happiness–even states of happiness that other people could bring about for them.

So isn’t understanding eudaimonia logically prior to successful long-term exchange on the unhampered market? And if that’s the case, shouldn’t we add another category of human action to praxeology?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:10:17 +0000

Go Julia! Also check out her recent piece on the phenomenology of virtue. Then, I’d be really interested to see your take on it.

Here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/q47r0p2n14438121/