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At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not…

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It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not…
Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as…
But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as…
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white…
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is…
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter…
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual…
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of…

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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. — Paul Cezanne
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto… — Werner Heisenberg
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at… — Christopher Wren
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around… — Richard Whately
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on… — Edward Abbey
Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day,… — George Weigel
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual… — Tom G. Palmer
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire
So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others… — Nicolaus Copernicus
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen. — John Trumbull
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if… — Robert Grosseteste

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