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NOTES
1. On this point, see Arthur A. Ekirch, The Decline of American Liberalism (New York, 1969) Chapters 1-4; Murray N. Rothbard, "Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty," in Left and Right, Vol. I, No. 1; and Part One, "Revolutionary Origins of Capitalist Democracy," in Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, by Barrington Moore, Jr. (Boston, 1966).
Editor's note. Rothbard's essay "Left and Right" can be read on line at www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=910 and can be downloaded as a PDF file at www.mises.org/journals/lar/pdfs/lrpfl.pdf.
2. I have not included various phases of the voluntaristic socialist movements here.
3. The "Wertfrei" social sciences are those which claim to be "scientific" and therefore completely divorced from any concern with value judgments. It is an interesting side-note that if we look closely at these supposedly "value-free" and "scientific" practitioners of value-free social sciences we find them often acting as advisors to the States which are engaging in domestic regulation, foreign imperialism, and war.
4. Brand Blanshard, The Nature of Thought (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1964), Vol. 2, p. 217. See also the whole of Chapter XXV, as well as: Ayn Rand, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology; and Peter Coffey, Epistemology and The Science of Logic, for treatments of human knowledge.
5. In this, I shall be drawing heavily on Nathaniel Branden's The Psychology of Self-Esteem (Los Angeles: Nash Publishing Co., 1969). [The Nash hardbound edition is now a rare item. The 1971 Bantam edition, paperbound, is easier to find. — ed.]
6. Ibid., pp. 15-16, 18. [Parallel Bantam citation: pp. 17, 19. — ed.]
7. One of the minimal qualities which something must have in order to be considered a "social context" is the absence of conditions (such as those of the much-heralded "lifeboat" case) which make it metaphysically impossible for two or more persons to simultaneously survive. I do not consider the so-called lifeboat situations to be a proper part of any social philosophy.
8. For a more detailed presentation of this view, see Ayn Rand, Introduction, etc., and Francisco Suarez, On Formal and Universal Unity. Suarez was a highly original philosopher of the 16th and 17th centuries, following in the Scholastic tradition, whose views on this and other important topics have been unfortunately neglected.
9. This is substantially the same approach to ethics as the natural law position of the Aristotelians and Thomists. See, e.g., A. P. d'Entreaves, Natural Law.
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