Seems like a fairly boring summer in the blogosphere. I'll probably complete a couple book reviews I've been working on and do some book writing myself. Instead of the usual 800 page tome on some aspect of History I've decided to go back to some modern philosophical classics. 
During a Hardfire debate last summer Ed Pell referenced Robert Nozick as the libertarian philosopher during the show. While its next to impossible to dispute such assertions in the heat of a debate, it did occur to me that perhaps Mr. Libertarian, Murray Rothbard, was once again not getting his due.
The Ethics of Liberty and Anarchy, State & Utopia are seminal works with regard to modern philosophical anarchy theory. While spending for too much time reading excerpts from Rawls in at least two of three Professor Grimes courses at good old SUNYA. Besides old Bill's rambling thesis on Ethics and Morality, there was at least a balanced dose of Nozick & John Hospers.
So far I've managed to finish the Hans Herman Hoppe intro and the first chapter. Alternating with Nozick should be interesting. Rothbard introduces the notion that even the Scholastics had room for natural law without a God. Likewise Nozick does some eloquent dancing to convince us that we need to examine the original state of nature. It least there's no talk about a veil of ignorance.
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