Heya, i’m a recent high school grad (private school of course [8-|] ). I first got interested in libertarianism and economics when I was like 13, because my dad had a bunch of books by Friedrich Hayek. I’ve been lurking on www.mises.org for a couple of years now and i decided to join, specifically …

An ultimate end is just a series of constitutive means applied to the series of ends. It is simply looking at the various ends we have met as a constitutive part of where our actions have taken us. And like I have stated, eudiamonia is a subjective matter applied objectively. Therefore if my eudi…

Because eudiamonia is the highest end… Because his revenge would bring him happiness. Preference through choice. Even if we are to take Mises ‘reduction of uneasiness’ phrase then all choices we make are towards an ultimate goal of a plane of reduced uneasiness. You may call it uneasiness, I ca…

My opinion is compatible plans have compatible goals, compatible goals have some overlap and therefore something held in common between men with compatible plans. Their values are singular if they are subjective, but they can also be objective. If a man values a perfect square, thats objective beca…

On the contrary, survival is the overaching end. Individuals reguarly sacrafice their lives for causes they believe to be more valuable for survival; ergo, it seems dubious that everyone is striving for survival as their over-arching end. Because eudiamonia is the highest end… Man is denied…

no, because what is a cost and what is a benefit is entirely subjective. all costs are opportunity costs, which we can make no comparison of among people. people may consider one thing (freedom of speech for homosexuals) a cost which they are nonetheless willing to accept in order to achieve a bene…

And yesterday you denied man can know anything… so you don’t even know what you wrote is correct or not. the problem is categorical in nature, value is only value when felt. motive is only motive when it motivates

So you think that the means/ends scheme is…unknowable? Only concerning semantics. Easiness could very well imply happiness. Why do we choose to reduce uneasiness if there is nothing benificial to the state of mind that it provides?

Even though a man throws himself on a grenade to save his fellows, it cannot be denied he values life over death (survival) . So yes man is always striving for life over death, period. I’m not going to be intellectually dishonest and say that life is the ultimate value at all times. But I will say …

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And yesterday you denied man can know anything… so you don’t even know what you wrote is correct or not.

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Heya! More Gordon

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