WiM046 - The Hillebrand Series | Episode 1 | Praxeology and Property

Max Hillebrand joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering the masterwork on libertarian philosophy “The Ethics of Liberty” written by Murray Rothbard.

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:05 NYDIG
00:01:23 Introduction to Max and “The Ethics of Liberty”
00:05:36 Defining Praxeology
00:13:01 Human Action, Observation, and Value
00:16:25 Preferences and Want-Satisfaction
00:17:33 Apriori vs. Empirical Knowledge
00:21:19 Defining Property
00:29:45 Property Rights and Alienability
00:32:13 Property’s Dependence on Defensibility
00:36:47 Non-Aggression (Yin) and Self-Defense (Yang)
00:39:40 The Universal Ethic: “Do Not Steal”
00:44:02 The Enforceability of Property
00:49:45 Castles and Preemptive Protection
00:54:12 The Architectural Defenses of Bitcoin
00:57:22 “Bitcoin Dies if No One Cares About Freedom”
00:58:58 Bitcoin and the Scale, Duration, and Frequency of Violence

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