Comments on: Richman on Brooks on Hume http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/richman-on-brooks-on-hume.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: spiffy http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/richman-on-brooks-on-hume.html/comment-page-1#comment-185302 spiffy Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:53:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6790#comment-185302 Don, I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, to consider that you, Richman, and most of Brook's NYT commenters may have misconstrued his column. Don, I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, to consider that you, Richman, and most of Brook’s NYT commenters may have misconstrued his column.

]]> By: spiffy http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/richman-on-brooks-on-hume.html/comment-page-1#comment-185301 spiffy Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:53:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6790#comment-185301 Don, I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, to consider that you, Richman, and most of Brook's NYT commenters may have misconstrued his column. Don, I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, to consider that you, Richman, and most of Brook’s NYT commenters may have misconstrued his column.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/richman-on-brooks-on-hume.html/comment-page-1#comment-184979 Anonymous Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:50:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6790#comment-184979 If you take this into account too "just like it's fair to say that it is compatible with other expressions of liberalism" it probably makes more sense. Hume is not inconsistent with libertarianism. There's a lot that libertarians can draw from Hume. But just because he's compatible with libertarianism doesn't mean he's not the thinker Brooks represented him as. I think there's a difference between recognizing that a person's views are largely compatible with many elements of modern libertarianism, and trying to rewrite someone from a completely different intellectual and historical context as a modern libertarian. Same with Locke, Jefferson, or any other classical liberals that can look like libertarians if you selectively quote them but stand out as their own men when you realize that they had many differences of opinion with modern libertarianism as well (namely this idea that an active state actor his somehow antithetical to liberty and property). If you take this into account too “just like it’s fair to say that it is compatible with other expressions of liberalism” it probably makes more sense. Hume is not inconsistent with libertarianism. There’s a lot that libertarians can draw from Hume. But just because he’s compatible with libertarianism doesn’t mean he’s not the thinker Brooks represented him as. I think there’s a difference between recognizing that a person’s views are largely compatible with many elements of modern libertarianism, and trying to rewrite someone from a completely different intellectual and historical context as a modern libertarian. Same with Locke, Jefferson, or any other classical liberals that can look like libertarians if you selectively quote them but stand out as their own men when you realize that they had many differences of opinion with modern libertarianism as well (namely this idea that an active state actor his somehow antithetical to liberty and property).

]]> By: Seth http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/richman-on-brooks-on-hume.html/comment-page-1#comment-184973 Seth Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:35:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6790#comment-184973 "Hume is compatible with modern libertarianism in many ways." "But I don't agree with this effort to remake him in the libertarian image." Huh? “Hume is compatible with modern libertarianism in many ways.”

“But I don’t agree with this effort to remake him in the libertarian image.”

Huh?

]]> By: Seth http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/richman-on-brooks-on-hume.html/comment-page-1#comment-184974 Seth Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:35:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6790#comment-184974 "Hume is compatible with modern libertarianism in many ways." "But I don't agree with this effort to remake him in the libertarian image." Huh? “Hume is compatible with modern libertarianism in many ways.”

“But I don’t agree with this effort to remake him in the libertarian image.”

Huh?

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