My article “Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide” was published in Mises Daily (May 27, 2011) (it includes “Discourse Ethics and Liberty: A Skeletal Ebook” [archived comments on Mises thread]). Below I note some relevant supplemental material that has been published since or that I have been made aware of that was not noted in the original article, and a few pieces with missing links from the original. It was also discussed on the Mises blog when published (archived comments)
- Hans Hermann Hoppe, “On The Ethics of Argumentation” (PFS 2016)
- The A priori of Argumention, video introduction by Hoppe
- Lecture 3 of my 2011 Mises Academy course, “The Social Theory of Hoppe” (slides here)
- Lecture 2 of my 2011 Mises Academy course, “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society” (slides here)
- my “Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights,” in The Dialectics of Liberty (Lexington Books, 2019)
- Kinsella, The Genesis of Estoppel: My Libertarian Rights Theory, StephanKinsella.com (March 22, 2016)
- ————, Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics and Its Critics, StephanKinsella.com (Aug. 11, 2015)
- Roger Pilon, “A Theory of Rights: Toward Limited Government“
- Alan Gewirth, “The Basis and Content of Human Rights“
- Pilon, “Ordering Rights Consistently: Or, What We Do and Do Not Have Rights To“
- Michaël Bauwens, “Rights, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday,” Independent Institute (Oct. 13, 2008)
- Alexander C., Reply to Roderick Long on Argumentation Ethics (September 17, 2021)
- Anonymous (Justopia), Exploding Argumentation Ethics (July 2020)
- Łukasz Dominiak, Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Argumentation Theory of Ethics(Mises Institute, July 19, 2019)
- PerfectSociety, Definitive Refutation of Hoppe’s “Argumentation Ethics”, reddit (Nov. 28, 2018)
- Cezary Błaszczyk, “The Critique of Copyright in Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics,” Studia Iuridica (2017)
- Johann von Brunswick, Neo-Hoppean Argumentation Ethics (January 5, 2018)
- Dave Burns, Argumentation Ethics steelman (July 5, 2018)
- ————, “What is incompatible with argumentation?,”Liberty Roadmap (Dec. 31, 2014)
- ————, “What did Hoppe’s critics miss?” (Dec 28, 2014)
- ————, “Hoppe questions” (Dec. 26, 2014)
- ————, “Frederick versus Hoppe” (Dec. 22, 2014)
- ————, “That which argumentation presupposes” (Dec. 15, 2014)
- ————, “We ought not argue” (Dec. 14, 2014)
- ————, “Who owns my brain?” (Dec. 12, 2014)
- ————, “Argumentation Presupposes Self-ownership” (Dec. 10, 2014)
- ————, “Understanding Hoppe” (Nov. 27, 2014)
- ————, “Reverse-engineering Hoppe” (Nov. 12, 2014)
- ————, “Notes on Long versus Hoppe” (Oct. 29, 2014)
- Christophe Cieters, “Nietzschean Libertarianism: The how and why of the free market morality” (Thesis Academiejaar 2009-2010, 2010)
- Kim Davies, The Transcendental Foundation of Ethics (1997)
- see also idem, Review of K-O Apel, Towards a Transformation of Philosophy(1980), Radical Philosophy 30 Spring 1982
- Łukasz Dominiak, The Problem of Axiomatic Status of the Self-Ownership Principled in the Libertarian Political Philosophy, Athenium: Polskie Studia Politologiczne, vol. 54/2017, ss. 61–84.
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe vs Luiz Fabrette – on Argumentation Ethics and non-arguers
- Marian Eabrasu, “Rothbard’s and Hoppe’s justifications of libertarianism: A critique,” Politics, Philosophy & Economics Vol. 12, no. 3 (Aug. 1, 2013): 288–307
- Danny Frederick, “Hoppe’s Derivation of Self-Ownership from Argumentation: Analysis and Critique,” Reason Papers, Vol. 35, no. 1 (July 2013)
- Spooner Bookman, “Critique of Danny Frederick’s Critique of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Derivation of Self-Ownership from Argumentation” [he let this die and there is no archive]
- מדע אומלל, Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics: A User Friendly, Neighborly Introduction, (Dec. 25, 2011)
- Walter Block, “Rejoinder to Murphy and Callahan on Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics,” Journal of Libertarian Studies 22:1 (2011)
- Konrad Graf, “Action-Based Jurisprudence: Praxeological Legal Theory in Relation to Economic Theory, Ethics, and Legal Practice,” Libertarian Papers 3, 19 (Aug. 13, 2011)
- Share, Cade, A Defense of Rothbardian Ethics via A Mediation of Hoppe and Rand, Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, August 2012, p.117 [unfortunately paywalled; online at https://booksc dot org/book/51341942/48c87a ]
- James Ketler, Neo-Hoppean Argumentation Ethics (Jan. 5, 2018)
- Terrell, Timothy D., “Property Rights and Externality: The Ethics of the Austrian School,” Journal of Markets & Morality 2, no. 2 (Fall 1999): 197–207
- Janne Wilhelm & Florian Klugler, Hoppe’s Theory of Property Rights, Ethics, and UPB and How Do Morality, Emotions and Rational Thinking Fit Together? (PDF); and Bogdan Dabrowski, Mises’ Human Action & Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethics applied to Psychology, Philosophy Europe Convention, Cryptoanarchy Institute, Prague (Sept. 12, 2015) [see also Bodgan Dabrowski, Praxeological Psychology, 27 February 2013];
- Young, Andrew T.. 2015. “Argumentation Ethics and the Question of Self-Ownership.”The Journal of Private Enterprise 30(3) Fall: 79–88.
- van Dun, Frank. 2015. “Reply to Andrew Young’s “Argumentation Ethics and the Question of Self-Ownership”.” The Journal of Private Enterprise 30(3) Fall: 89–102.
- Argumentation Ethics: A Praxeological failure, by egoutilitarianism (kenshikenji) ( (see also the corresonding YouTube video by Ego-Utilitarianism)
- Argumentation ethics (Wikipedia)
- “Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide” (2011) (Audio)
- KOL218 | Argumentation Ethics – Patterson in Pursuit
- KOL155 | “The Social Theory of Hoppe: Lecture 3: Libertarian Rights and Argumentation Ethics”
- “Argumentation Ethics, Estoppel, and Libertarian Rights: Adam Smith Forum, Moscow”
- “Argumentation Ethics, Estoppel, and Libertarian Rights: Transcript”
- “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society: Lecture 1: Libertarian Basics: Rights and Law”
- “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society: Lecture 2: Libertarian Basics: Rights and Law-Continued”
Wow, this seems so official. I’m a bit embarrassed about some of the early posts, I am still learning. Maybe I should go back and put strikethroughs over all the bits where I hadn’t figured it out yet, or provide addenda. I’m allowed to make mistakes in a blog post, right?
Anyhow, thanks for including my stuff, that is very flattering. And I certainly appreciate your help and encouragement.
Dave
Here’s one http://mattbruenig.com/2013/05/16/my-favorite-libertarian-argument/
Almost every time i get into a discussion on AE i am linked to this as if it is some Hoppian instant smack down. This guy regularly attacks libertarian property rights theory, and is starting to gain a lot of attention for it, for some reason.
Anyway, here’s his famous conclusion on AE:
“When the entire globe has been snatched up as property, something possible in a libertarian regime, you may literally find yourself with nowhere to physically stand. You would not be able to exist on the earth whatsoever. Being able to exist on the earth is clearly a presupposition for making arguments on it, meaning that in fact it is a performative contradiction to argue for libertarian institutions.
I could go on, but I don’t think it is necessary. It is worth noting that Rothbard, an equally bad philosopher, thought Hoppe’s argument was genius. What you think that says about Rothbard’s intellect is your call.”