So.. how to best structure a forum so there isn’t any overlap but all areas are addressed? But not so things are too broad and unclear? A Miseian forum, requires a Misesian structure, no? :o Proposed result at end, patched together reasoning leads up to it.
"In particular, what are the differences between praxeology and technology, psychology, history, and ethics-all of which are in some way concerned with human action?
In brief, praxeology consists of the logical implications of the universal formal fact that people act, that they employ means to try to attain chosen ends. Technology deals with the contentual problem of how to achieve ends by adoption of means. Psychology deals with the question of why people adopt various ends and how they go about adopting them. Ethics deals with the question of what ends, or values, people should adopt. And history deals with ends adopted in the past, what means were used to try to achieve them-and what the consequences of these actions were.
Praxeology, or economic theory in particular, is thus a unique discipline within the social sciences; for, in contrast to the others, it deals not with the content of men’s values, goals, and actions-not with what they have done or how they have acted or how they should act-but purely with the fact that they do have goals and act to attain them." – MNR, http://mises.org/rothbard/praxeology.pdf
^ Provides a bit of the framework. Here more so:
To summarize up to this point, using a simple tree metaphor, the root of praxeology can be derived using the analysis of the actions of an isolated individual—the concept of action and its first implications. The trunk comprises the analysis of interaction with classes of communicative acts—embordering/claiming and consenting—and accounts of the concept of first appropriation and the possibility of the consensual transfer of property titles. These concepts are logically prior to branching into economic theory and legal theory because the concepts of both branches logically presuppose some account of the root and trunk foundations, even if this is unacknowledged. The transition into branching may be identified with the move from universal features of all action or interaction to axiomatic deductions that are more narrowly specified with increasing factual or contextual assumptions that assure the relevance of analysis to the parameters of the type of world and context being considered.
(Source: libertarianpapers.org)
Deductive legal theory, when properly applied in a given context, objectively and descriptively defines the parameters of what justice is in relation to questions of property rights, contracts, torts, and other legal matters. This yields a deeper-than-expected foundation for the traditional libertarian insistence on not mixing law with morality and the corollary opposition to “legislating morality.” Legal theory is a discrete field that, like Mises’s conception of economic theory, can provide descriptive, categorical input for use in “ought” considerations, even as legal theory and ethics remain distinct in foundations, scope, and method.
(Source: libertarianpapers.org)
And so we have…
Forum Guidelines, Introductions & More |
Introduction by Kinsella 23-04-2012 07:46 PM |
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| Forum | Last Post | Threads | Posts | |
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General Politics Discussion of political news, and complex issues requiring both legal and economic analysis. |
Corruption by Infiltration by JimRobertson 24-04-2012 12:23 PM |
38 | 171 | |
Jurisprudence Discussion of political theory, Libertarianism, contract, torts, and mass torts (war, interventionism) |
The Failed God: Democracy by John James 30-04-2012 07:57 PM |
30 | 117 | |
Economics Discussion of theory, Austrian school, direct exchange, indirect exchange, and price theory. |
Praxeology with Tom Woods by Thomas Woods 30-04-2012 07:48 PM |
23 | 102 | |
Philosophy Discussions of epistemology, logic, praxeology, and ethics. |
Language, Logic, Knowledge… by Hoppe 16-04-2012 11:58 PM |
25 | 13 | |
General Discussions of technology, history, thymology, natural sciences, psychology, and everything else |
Celebrity culture by Mises 23-04-2012 07:55 PM |
39 | 161 |
+So top section is every day complex issues that generally require both legal and economic analysis… for example; banking… it belongs neither just in economics side of things, or only on a political philosophical side… both arguments are often raised.
+The principled discussions about libertarianism, NAP, self-ownership, A priori of argumentation, anarchy etc. would go in jurisprudence.
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Economics is self explanatory I’d hope. More catallatics than anything else I guess.
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Philosophy… praxeology is in there because it’s the basis of all epistemology ;o. (On Praxeology and the Praxeological Foundation of Epistemology: Chapter II - Hoppe, Economic Science and Austrian Method).
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General could be seen as (off topic).
Thoughts?