http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/07/08/32-flavors-of-freedom/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:11:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/07/08/32-flavors-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-8309 I’ll Take A Rothbardian Anarchism, In A Waffle Cone, With Sprinkles « Around The Sphere Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:50:40 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3378#comment-8309 [...] Julian Sanchez: This seems off to me—and uncharacteristically messy, actually. For one, it blurs together a bunch of different levels of taxonomy. Mises and Cato both have institutional cultures that are distinct from whatever ideological strains somone might associate with them—and in the case of Cato, at least, I think there’s substantial enough internal diversity that I’d be hesitant to use it as a tagline for any particular form of the philosophy. Which is as it should be at a policy shop.  I’m not disposed to sit around making elaborate lists all day, but if you wanted to do this, I think you’d want a set of cultural categories and a set of philosophical ones, though of course certain pairings are a lot more common than others. Tyler’s list is more of a philosophical breakdown, but it reads oddly. Jeff Friedman runs an interesting journal and some great seminars, but his name looks odd juxtaposed with “Rothbardian Anarchism” as a category. A more intuitive grouping would put him in with a much broader bunch of public choice–minded consequentialists, alongside those Rothbardian Anarchists, a generic group for “non-aggression principle” deontologists, Chicago Schoolers, paleolibertarians, Objectivists (who are libertarians in every ordinary-use sense of the term, even if they don’t like it), and ecumenical Hayekians. I leave the cultural subdivisions as an exercise for the reader. My comments regarding Jeffrey Friedman notwithstanding, Starchild is actually his own category here. [...] [...] Julian Sanchez: This seems off to me—and uncharacteristically messy, actually. For one, it blurs together a bunch of different levels of taxonomy. Mises and Cato both have institutional cultures that are distinct from whatever ideological strains somone might associate with them—and in the case of Cato, at least, I think there’s substantial enough internal diversity that I’d be hesitant to use it as a tagline for any particular form of the philosophy. Which is as it should be at a policy shop.  I’m not disposed to sit around making elaborate lists all day, but if you wanted to do this, I think you’d want a set of cultural categories and a set of philosophical ones, though of course certain pairings are a lot more common than others. Tyler’s list is more of a philosophical breakdown, but it reads oddly. Jeff Friedman runs an interesting journal and some great seminars, but his name looks odd juxtaposed with “Rothbardian Anarchism” as a category. A more intuitive grouping would put him in with a much broader bunch of public choice–minded consequentialists, alongside those Rothbardian Anarchists, a generic group for “non-aggression principle” deontologists, Chicago Schoolers, paleolibertarians, Objectivists (who are libertarians in every ordinary-use sense of the term, even if they don’t like it), and ecumenical Hayekians. I leave the cultural subdivisions as an exercise for the reader. My comments regarding Jeffrey Friedman notwithstanding, Starchild is actually his own category here. [...]

]]> http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/07/08/32-flavors-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-8302 B. Kennedy Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:22:17 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3378#comment-8302 Back when we were both in college, a libertarian student and I butted heads (myself being a classic three-legged stool conservative) then made friends with said that if two libertarians are agreeing on anything, one of them is just being polite. Back when we were both in college, a libertarian student and I butted heads (myself being a classic three-legged stool conservative) then made friends with said that if two libertarians are agreeing on anything, one of them is just being polite.

]]> http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/07/08/32-flavors-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-8300 NG Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:27:49 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3378#comment-8300 I find it's easiest just to classify libertarians by whatever issues bother them the most: gun libertarians, drug libertarians, tax libertarians and peace libertarians. I find it’s easiest just to classify libertarians by whatever issues bother them the most: gun libertarians, drug libertarians, tax libertarians and peace libertarians.

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