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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 19

Feb 04

By Roderick

I have a new post up at BHL: Eudaimonist Libertarianism. Not too hot, not too cold – like lukewarm porridge, it’s just right!

Tagged Antiquity, Ethics, Left-Libertarian, Personal | 8 Responses

Armed With Ajax!

Jan 29

By Roderick

More juvenilia: an essay on Sophocles’ Ajax, from senior year of college.

Tagged Antiquity, Ethics, Juvenilia, Online Texts, Personal | Leave a response

By Heaven, I’ll Know Thy Thoughts

Jan 02

By Roderick

I realise to my surprise that I never got around to posting my APS paper “Shakespeare, Godwin, Kafka, and the Political Problem of Other Minds.” Okay, now I have. Here’s the abstract: Colin McGinn maintains that Othello is about the problem of other minds. But Othello’s version of the problem – the inaccessibility of particular [...]

Tagged Anarchy, Ethics, Feminism, Labortarian, Left-Libertarian, Online Texts, Personal, Science Fiction, Unethical Philosophy | Leave a response

Anarchy in DC: Update

Anarchy in DC: Update

Dec 27

By Roderick

The location of Thursday’s Molinari Society session will be the McKinley Room (yes, there’s a certain irony there), on the Mezzanine level (click pic below for biggerness).

Tagged Anarchy, Boring Administrative Stuff, Ethics, Left-Libertarian, Molinari/C4SS | 7 Responses

Thickness Gone Strange

Dec 16

By Roderick

Walter Block, who has long resisted the idea of thick libertarianism, now seems to have embraced it. In a recent piece, Walter writes: “I distinguish between being a libertarian, and agreeing with (virtually all) libertarian principles. The former implies that you act so as to promote liberty.” Now clearly one can abide by the non-aggression [...]

Tagged Anarchy, Democracy, Ethics, Left-Libertarian | 9 Responses

Some Distinctions and Clarifications

Some Distinctions and Clarifications

Dec 13

By Roderick

I want to talk a bit a bit some of the ways in which left-libertarian claims are susceptible of misinterpretation. (Note: when I use the term “right-libertarian” below, I mean “libertarians who deviate rightward from the C4SS/ALL plumbline”!) 1. Right-libertarians sometimes accuse left-libertarians of misrepresenting right-libertarians’ relation to corporatism. “They say we support government favouritism [...]

Tagged Antiracism, Conflation Debate, Ethics, Feminism, Labortarian, Left and Right, Left-Libertarian, Praxeology, Unethical Philosophy | 30 Responses

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I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.

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