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		<title>Conceptual Origination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Hume, in his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, writes thus: 
Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas furnished by the internal and external senses, it has unlimited power of mixing, compounding, separating, and dividing these ideas, in all the varieties of fiction and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeble Child Theory of Man Repudiated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 11:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jessica Watson sailed around the world. As she returned home, she was met by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who hailed her as &#8220;Australia&#8217;s newest hero.&#8221; &#8220;You do our nation proud,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You are a hero for young Australians &#8230; and young Australian women.&#8221;
But Watson said she had to disagree with Mr Rudd as &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bertrand Russell Not a Communist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Bertrand Russell&#8217;s short essay, Why I Am Not a Communist, Russell provides two objections to Marx. First, Marx was &#8220;muddle headed,&#8221; and secondly &#8220;his thinking was almost entirely inspired by hatred.&#8221;
Russell summarizes Marxism thus:
The doctrine of surplus value, which is supposed to demonstrate the exploitation of wage-earners under capitalism, is arrived at: (a) by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Property Contradicts Consent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Sandel, the communitarian professor of philosophy at Harvard University, has a beginners level lecture series online.He covers the spectrum of moral philosophies and overall it&#8217;s a good series.
He is, however, a communitarian; communitarians define themselves roughly as &#8220;opposed to any variant of individualism.&#8221; They believe in group rights, not individual rights. As pluralists, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libertarianism from A to Z</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 13:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Libertarianism, from A to Z by Jeffrey Miron
Jeffrey Miron is a professor of economics at Harvard University and an outspoken libertarian. His new book, Libertarianism from A to Z, has just come out and is available at Amazon.
There are many defenses of libertarian thought out there. I dare say libertarians do not need any more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Exploitation</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=238</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 08:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exploitation, according to the advocates of exploitation theory, is the failure to pay a person what he deserves. The idea central to this theory is that deserts are objectively truths.
According to the labor theory of value,  the value of a product is determined by the socially average amounts of human labor-time currently required to produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Circumcision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years, the anti-circumcision folks were gathering momentum. The all hell broke loose:
&#8220;WHO Recommends Circumcision, Citing HIV Data&#8221;
In addition, the US based CDC (Centers for Disease Control) now states that:
large retrospective study of circumcision in nearly 15,000 infants found neonatal circumcision to be highly cost-effective, considering the estimated number of averted cases of infant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nishida Kitaro: An inquiry into the Good</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=285</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a child, my family moved from Washington State to Tokyo, Japan. Since then, I’ve spent about half my life here in Japan. Seattle and Tokyo are equally home to me; when I’m there, I miss here, and vice versa.
One of the biggest cultural differences I noted was the values attached to wealth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Individual Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=280</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political individualism is the assertion that no man has the right to violate the individual sovereignty of another man. When the government violates a man’s freedom by telling him who he can or cannot marry, as in the case of gay marriage bans; or when the government tells him what he can or cannot smoke, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rationalism of Parmenides</title>
		<link>http://www.individualism.com/?p=276</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parmenides is considered by many to be the luminary of the Pre-Socratics. Gordon H. Clark calls him “the Greatest of the Pre-Socratics.” Daniel W. Graham writes, “Parmenides was the great watershed of Presocratic thought.” F.M. Cornford, in From Religion to Philosophy, identifies Parmenides as the “discoverer of logic,” an identification which doesn’t bode well for [...]]]></description>
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