Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

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God has knowledge of all possible worlds. That we can term “natural” knowledge, as Molinists call it. Then there is “free knowledge,” such as the knowledge God has of which possible world is the actual one. But free knowledge is contingent: God could have willed a different world into being and therefore known a different [...]

“So I ask you to imagine how the world worked before the advent of central banking and before our permanent state of inflationary paper currency. Imagine if the money you made and saved were as good as gold – a truly independent medium of exchange that was not subject to political manipulation, confiscation, or depreciation. [...]

Multiple Attributes Disproofs of the Existence of God (1) Incompatible-Properties Arguments: A Survey 1. Incompatible-Properties Arguments: A Surveyby Theodore M. Drange 1) Again we are asked, why does God, Who is perfect, create, when a perfect being “can have no needs or wants” (The Impossibility of God, 186)? And again I will reply that praxeology [...]

Charles Hartshorne writes: The venerable dogma, “agent is superior to patient,” is not derived from the study of knowledge. Indeed, it is not derived from any careful examination of ordinary cases. To speak is to be agent, to listen is to be patient, and those who want to show their superiority by speaking without listening [...]

In my reply to Don who responded to my article on democracy, I wrote: You seem to hold that democratic government can be made to work given virtuous citizens and the right kind of politicians and bureaucrats. On the one hand, it is in principle possible. But the institutional arrangements and incentives they produce are [...]

I’ll tell you this: whenever someone says, “The power of the state is as firm as the earth itself,” watch out for an earthquake shortly thereafter. Yes, Paul can win.

Doctrinal Disproofs of the Existence of God (1) The Paradox of Eden (2) A Moral Argument for Atheism (3) Miracles As Evidence Against the Existence of God (4) Miracles and God: A Reply to Robert A.H. Larmer (5) The Argument from Unfairness 1. The Paradox of Edenby Richard R. La Croex This article, amounting to [...]

by Étienne de La Boétie here or here if you prefer to read Rothbard’s introduction at the expense of having to open a PDF file. When I first read it a long time ago, I was fearful that a medieval thinker would be obscure and hard to read; I was very pleasantly surprised by how [...]

Here is his spectacular and brilliant The Anatomy of the State, e.g., Especially has the State been successful in recent centuries in instilling fear of other State rulers. Since the land area of the globe has been parceled out among particular States, one of the basic doctrines of the State was to identify itself with [...]

“So he decreed, in words succinct, That all who flirted, leered, or winked (Unless connubially linked), Should forthwith be beheaded.” Hugh LaFollette, whose article on Plantinga I review here, is a peculiar fellow. Did you know that he wrote an article in 1980 which advocates licensing of parents by the state? Yes, our friend here [...]