Mises’s Epicurean Ethics

David Gordon at the Human Action Conference, 2024

05/17/2024 David Gordon

“These days, Stoicism is very fashionable, and popular books on this subject are easy to find. Ludwig von Mises drew from a different tradition of Greek ethics, Epicureanism.”

Presented at the 2024 Human Action Conference on Friday, 17 May 2024, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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