Eine zeitgenössische Vorstellung wichtiger politischer Denker von Thomas Hobbes bis Francis Fukuyama, entstanden während der Pandemie. Für ein breites Publikum geschrieben, ist das Buch einfach und gut zu lesen, damit allerdings auch nur Einstiegslektüre bzw. eine bequeme Möglichkeit, altbekanntes aufzufrischen.
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How can the state control the corporations that build the thinking machines? Can anyone or anything control the thinking machines? These are still Hobbesian questions because they are about the things that we built to serve us and about whether they do still serve us or whether we serve them.
How can the state control the corporations that build the thinking machines? Can anyone or anything control the thinking machines? These are still Hobbesian questions because they are about the things that we built to serve us and about whether they do still serve us or whether we serve them.
Ludwig von Mises – Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution
Ludwig von Mises (1881 in Lemberg geboren, 1973 in New York gestorben) war ein österreichischer Ökonom, der heutzutage allgemein eher weniger bekannt ist. Bei “Theory and History” handelt es sich um einen systematisch aufgebauten philosophischen Essay, der die Theorie des menschlichen Handelns (Praxeologie) fundieren möchte. Was ich bisher gelesen haben, hat mich angesprochen, allerdings erscheint mir das meiste auch als common sense – das war vielleicht zu der Zeit, als das Buch verfasst wurde, nicht der Fall. Freiheit des Geistes und der Wahl sind zentrale Motive, die Ludwig von Mises bewegt haben. Er war offenbar ein sehr liberaler Denker.
Wertekritik – ein Hauch von Nietzsche ohne dessen Polemik:
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One of the motives that impel men to search for an absolute and immutable standard of value is the presumption that peaceful cooperation is possible only among people guided by the same judgments of value.
One of the motives that impel men to search for an absolute and immutable standard of value is the presumption that peaceful cooperation is possible only among people guided by the same judgments of value.
Über Marx und den Marxismus:
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Marxism is a revolutionary doctrine. It expressly declares that the design of the prime mover will be accomplished by civil war. It implies that ultimately in the battles of these campaigns the just cause, that is, the cause of progress, must conquer. Then all conflicts concerning judgments of value will disappear. The liquidation of all dissenters will establish the undisputed supremacy of the absolute eternal values.
Marxism is a revolutionary doctrine. It expressly declares that the design of the prime mover will be accomplished by civil war. It implies that ultimately in the battles of these campaigns the just cause, that is, the cause of progress, must conquer. Then all conflicts concerning judgments of value will disappear. The liquidation of all dissenters will establish the undisputed supremacy of the absolute eternal values.
Über Metaphysik:
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There is nothing vicious about metaphysics. Man cannot do without it. The positivists are lamentably wrong in employing the term “metaphysics” as a synonym for nonsense.
There is nothing vicious about metaphysics. Man cannot do without it. The positivists are lamentably wrong in employing the term “metaphysics” as a synonym for nonsense.
