Kinsella On Liberty KOL181 | Tom Woods Show: It Is Impossible to Argue Against Libertarianism Without Contradiction
Mar 31, 2015
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Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 181.
I discussed argumentation ethics with Tom Woods on his show today:
Ep. 370 It Is Impossible to Argue Against Libertarianism Without Contradiction
By Tom Woods / March 31, 2015 / Podcast
Stephan Kinsella discusses the argumentation ethics of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, who argues that only libertarian norms can be argumentatively.
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Tom cleverly chose as the title for the episode a provocative one reminiscent of the bold title of Hoppe's Liberty article, "The Ultimate Justification of the Private Property Ethic" (September 1988).
See also Tom Woods on the Origin of Rights and Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethic
I've discussed it several times in the past in audio and text. See, e.g.:
Kinsella, “Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide,” Mises Daily (May 27, 2011)
Kinsella, "A Libertarian Theory of Punishment and Rights," "Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights," and “Defending Argumentation Ethics: Reply to Murphy & Callahan,” all in Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023)
"Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics and Its Critics"
"Revisiting Argumentation Ethics";
KOL155 | “The Social Theory of Hoppe: Lecture 3: Libertarian Rights and Argumentation Ethics”
“Argumentation Ethics, Estoppel, and Libertarian Rights: Adam Smith Forum, Moscow”
“Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society: Lecture 1: Libertarian Basics: Rights and Law”
“Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society: Lecture 2: Libertarian Basics: Rights and Law-Continued”
“Argumentation Ethics and the Philosophy of Freedom,” by Frank van Dun
"Argumentation Ethics" (Wikipedia)
The A priori of Argumention, video introduction by Hoppe
Update: response by Bob Murphy here: Stephan Kinsella Discusses Argumentation Ethics With Tom Woods. For more: see Defending Argumentation Ethics: Reply to Murphy & Callahan, Anti-state.com (Sept. 19, 2002) (wayback version) (reply to Bob Murphy and Gene Callahan, Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethic: A Critique, Anti-state.com (Sept. 19, 2002; wayback version; more recent version at JLS; Block’s rejoinder); debate discussed in this forum).