User talk:Curtd59
I am director of the Propertarian Institute (a think tank) I live in Kiev Ukraine. My primary academic interest is Economic Philosophy and Political Economy. My contributions to philosophy include formal theories of Propertarianism, Aristocratic Egalitarianism, Testimonial Truth and Operationalism in the logic of cooperation.
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Hi!
Are you Curt Doolittle?
Benjamin (talk) 00:04, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
Yes I am. Or at least I can't testify otherwise. ;)
Curtd59 (talk) 01:22, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for taking the time to reply. Do you know if there are any reliable sources that show how influential you are within Propertarianism? Another editor there was going to remove all mention of you from the article, but I've also heard that you're the one who basically invented it. Benjamin (talk) 01:32, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
I mean...
1. I wrote it right?
2. I teach it at the institute. (propertarianism.com)
3. The site has the content at www.propertarianism.com > Home > Main Menu > "Propertarianism", including:
- - Overview
- - Learning Propertarianism
- - Videos and Podcasts
- - Reading List
- - A Style Guide
- - Glossary
4. The institute's website has the history back to 2009 at www.propertarianism.com/blog, that includes something close to 10,000 posts.
5. Google or Bing search will show it's my work.
6. Google ngram viewer will show the term appearing in '65 and disappearing until I registered and started using it as the brand name for my work.
7. The book won't be published until later this year or early next (I don't control that).
8. Despite the extremely difficult subject matter, I have thousands of subscribed followers in what is effectively a study of the strict construction of law, by the strict construction of language. The associated political movement is small, but that's to be expected. Most academics in likewise niche technical disciplines would be thrilled to have my following and influence.
HISTORICALLY - THE LEGAL TRADITION
Aristotle's Athenian Constitution > John Locke(British) > Jefferson and Adams(British American) > American Pragmatists(American) > Rand and Rothbard(Jewish Moralism) > Hoppe (German Rationalism) > Doolittle (Anglo Empiricism). We all argue similar points in the language of our ancestors.
I mean, Rothbard was a student of Rand's, Hoppe was a student of Rothbard's. And I'm a student of Hoppe's. It's personal acquaintance (relationships) direct experience (mentorship), and it's all well known in the community. Even if I'm sort of outcast for my criticisms of Rand, Rothbard, and Hoppe.
I don't know what else to say.
MARKET DEMAND
We (the Propertarian Institute) are pressured constantly to improve the wiki page on Propertarianism. The primary value of a wiki page would be to disambiguate the uses of the terms, and to post the same definition that's on the home page of the institute's site (See Below). But we have found that in general, the Wiki Editors resist disambiguation of the term. Our frustration led us to briefly consider changing the name of framework to "Testimonialism" which would be less descriptive but unique, but by that time "P" as we refer to it (Propertarianism) had evolved into a brand with enough recognition in the libertarian community that we could not change it. So we just let the Search Engines do their job. And I copy-paste the definition over and over again in social media to compensate for the lack of a wiki article.
PROPOSITION
I'd be ok with disambiguating:
- "propertarian" (the reduction of all questions of ethics to property rights) from;
- "propertarianism" (a disparaging synonym for "libertarianism", originated in the 60's) from;
- "Propertarianism" (a formal system of operational logic for the strict construction of Constitutions under Natural Law)
DEFINITION “Propertarianism consists of a methodology that provides the completion of the Scientific Method; its application to the totality of human knowledge; resulting in a value-neutral, universally commensurable language of all thought; its embodiment in strictly constructed common law of tort; and as a consequence the eradication of superstition, pseudoscience, sophism, fraud, and deceit from the commercial, financial, economic, political, and informational commons.”