Life, Love, and Liberty

I’m still on my Beauty And The Beast fix from yesterday with Belle.

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The recent thinking I’ve done on issues from gay marriage to children’s rights has led me to see the major importance of culture and dialectical method. I’ve decided to explore this further with my first book titled Studies In Dialectical Libertarianism that will take some time to finish. I’ll examine the connections I see between cultural, political, and economic radicalism. It’s important to look at issues from multiple vantage points if we want to arrive at a libertarianism that will lead to a genuinely better society.

I want to thank Chris for helping me take another step in my intellectual evolution. It was our private correspondence and his work that provoked the thought that led to this idea. I’ll end this announcement with a quote from pg.383 of Total Freedom: Towards A Dialectical Libertarianism that gells with my book project.

“Just as relations of power operate through ethical, psychological, cultural, political, and economic dimensions, so too the struggle for freedom and individualism depends upon a certain constellation of moral, psychological, and cultural factors. By further articulating this radical constellation, Rand and her intellectual progeny move toward a dialectical libertarianism.

Thus, in a very real methodological convergence, virtually every major school of thought within late-twentieth-century and early-twenty-first-century libertarianism-from the neo-Aristotelian to the dialogical to the Austrian to the Randian-is moving toward a similiarly dialectical construction of its political project. But there is so much more work to be done.”

I plan on contributing to that unfinished work Chris speaks of.

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