KOL155 | “The Social Theory of Hoppe: Lecture 3: Libertarian Rights and Argumentation Ethics”

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 155. This is the third of 6 lectures of my 2011 Mises Academy course "The Social Theory of Hoppe." I’ll release the remaining lectures here in the podcast feed in upcoming days. The slides for this lecture are appended below; links for "suggested readings" for the course are included in the podcast post for the first lecture, episode 153. Transcript below. LECTURE 3: LIBERTARIAN RIGHTS AND ARGUMENTATION ETHICS Video Slides TRANSCRIPT The Social Theory of Hoppe, Lecture 3: Libertarian Rights and Argumentation Ethics Stephan Kinsella Mises Academy, July 25, 2011 00:00:01 STEPHAN KINSELLA: … later.  So tonight we’ll talk about argumentation ethics.  I have a lot of slides, but some of them will go very fast because they’re just background in case you want to look at them later or if we need some quotes.  But let’s go ahead and dive right into tonight’s lecture.  By the way, before we start, I’m curious.  Who here – well, let me get to the readings page first.  I don’t know if I have that up there.  Who here read more than the required or suggested reading and onto the more optional reading?  I’m just curious how many students have actually read into the argumentation ethics literature beyond the basic stuff I recommended.  Anyone? 00:00:49 00:00:54 Okay, Jacob has.  Jacob, I’m curious.  What did you read beyond the basic stuff?  Method essay.  For argumentation ethics?  Okay.  In any case – oh, just by the way, so we’ll have a short quiz for the first – covering the first three weeks, which will start – I’ll have it posted in a few days.  I’m leaving tomorrow morning, by the way, for the Mises University, so I’ll be traveling tomorrow, but I’ll try to get it up in a couple days.  I wanted to finish this class first before I finish the test so I could make sure I covered only what we talked about in class.  Oh interesting, Jacob.  Good, so you’ve read a lot.  Well, maybe you can help me with some of the difficult questions in here. 00:01:45 So the multiple-choice test will be up in a few days.  It’s optional.  Don’t feel compelled to take it if you don’t want to.  It’s not meant to make anyone feel like they’re going to fail or anything.  It’s just a refresher on the course.  It’s going to be fun, test your knowledge, and to get the certificate if you’d like.  And again, it’s based upon what I say in the lectures, the slides, and also the reading material I mark as suggested but not on the optional reading material. 00:02:11 00:02:15 Okay, so last class we talked about various property issues, how the state arises and the nature of the state, the types of socialism.  We started to talk about de-socialization.  I don’t know if we’ll have time to get to that tonight.  I do have some slides on it at the very end, but I doubt we’ll be able to get to it very much.  Anyway, the article is pretty self-explanatory in any case.  Maybe we can cover it in lecture number six on political topics or number five on economic topics. 00:02:46 By the way, let me – well, we’ll talk at the end a bit about – next class will be on epistemology and methodology.  Okay, so today we’re going to talk about libertarian rights and argumentation ethics.  By the way, I have this little mini ad for my last course because I just want to remind people, I did cover some of this in that course in a more summary fashion.  And some of that’s included in these slides.  I modified it for tonight, and there’s extra stuff here too, but for anyone who took the previous course, some of this I talked about before.  But I’m actually leaving out here a lot of the stuff I talked about in the Libertarian Legal Theory course because it’s no...