Belated Austro-Athenian Plug

This news is nearly a year old now, but Geoff Plauché’s excellent dissertation is online. It combines Aristotelean eudaimonism, Austrian praxeology, dialectical libertarianism, Ayn Rand, New Left anti-corporatism, and free-market anarchism. (So, nothing that would interest any readers of this blog ….)

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  1. Sheldon Richman’s avatar

    It’s on my Kindle and ready to read.

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  2. Geoffrey Allan Plauché’s avatar

    Thanks for the plug, Roderick!

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  3. Geoffrey Allan Plauché’s avatar

    Oh, btw, my blog has moved from veritasnoctis.blogspot.com to http://www.veritasnoctis.net/blog.

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    1. Brandon’s avatar

      Noted and changed.

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  4. Anon73’s avatar

    An amusing fact from wikipedia: Apparently in the US and British common laws it is no defense to prosecution for the crime to be impossible to commit. Thus, attempting to steal from an empty pocket is still considered the same crime as if something was actually stolen from a full pocket:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoate_offense#Impossibility

    The article outlines several cases of defendants harming people who were already dead, or shooting at buildings mistakenly believed to have people inside.

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    1. Billy’s avatar

      It’s not that one is still guilty of the crime, but that one is guilty of an attempted crime (aka inchoate offences). The ‘thief’ who ’steals’ from the empty pocket is not guilty of theft but of attempted theft.

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      1. Anon73’s avatar

        Yes but it’s obviously not just from a libertarian perspective is what I was getting at. For example if you steal your own umbrella mistakenly thinking it is somebody else’s, then there is no victim and hence no crime.

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        1. Billy’s avatar

          True, true.

          Just using the little legal knowledge I have to be a pedant!

  5. Natailya Petrova’s avatar

    I’d forgotten he was writing a diss., but I am glad to hear it’s online!

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    1. Roderick’s avatar

      Time is relative; in some reference frames that was only a few minutes ago.

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