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Roderick Long leads The Mises Circle: An Informal Discussion of Anarchy at Mises University 2004. Read the transcript of this talk in this  PDF .

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Recorded at Mises University 2005.

Recorded at the Mises Institute, 7–8 October 2005. [27:24]

Roderick T. Long presents the  Murray N.  Rothbard  Memorial Lecture:  Rothbard’s “Left and Right”: 40 Years Later. From the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference.

Praxeology is a set of conceptual tools about the theory of action. It is the basis of economic theory. Whereas much has been fleshed out about the economics of human action, there is little about the ethics and natural rights of human action. Aristotle starts his ethics with every aim seems to fulfill some good. Mises starts his ethics with every

Claims of ultimate ends, like happiness or well-being, are impossible, says Hobbes. In this life, the fact that you are still acting shows that you have not achieved any ultimate end. Does action really express dissatisfaction? You can act to keep something happening, rather than to try to change things. An ultimate end is not praxeologically

Economics deals with the preferences you are actually acting on. The judgment you are not acting on could still be around. So, action does not imply total judgment. If we had free will we could control our actions. We can choose our overall pattern of actions. You are not stuck with any particular pattern. The more often you do virtuous things,

Why should I care about anyone else but myself? We each have our own values to pursue. Is all valuation relative or neutral? The values we actually use seem to be agent neutral. We endorse these values both for ourselves and for others. Hobbes says that in a state of nature it is legitimate for everybody to do what they want. Socrates said that