Episode 054 is a conversation on the philosophy of anarchism, including the contrast between left and right anarchists on property norms and how this relates to voluntaryism, as well as the application of Phil’s allegorical imperative to anarchism. Listen to Episode 054 (0h49m, mp3, 96kbps)Show Notes Skyler’s Blog Post, “On Anarchism“Wikipedia.org, “Anarchism“Skyler’s Column, “Voluntaryism: One…
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Four Cents 015 – On Free Range Kids (0h15m)
Four Cents 015 is a chat on the concept of “free range kids” and the recent controversy over the police and CPS kidnapping two kids, 10 and 6, walking home alone in accordance with the free range kids philosophy. Lenore Skenazy blogs about the incident here at skyler.link/frkmeitivs. Listen to Four Cents 015 (0h15m, mp3,…
On Anarchism
In my opinion, anarchism is the philosophy of non-aggression. Aggression is an uninvited boundary crossing, a trespass. Rulers, by definition, are initiators of aggression. They trespass on the bodies and property of those they rule. Hence, anarchism, as the philosophy of “without rulers”, is the philosophy of non-aggression. The initiation of aggression is incompatible with…
Words Poorly Used #63 — Philosophy
Philosophy is not enough. Reason tells me that the ancient sages missed the point in naming the highest of human arts. Philos + sophos, love + wisdom; is philosophy just the relationship of love and wisdom? I intuit that both are necessary, but not sufficient. The two in isolation allow for far too much dilettantism.…
An Attempt at a Universal Ethic I: Introduction
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Morality and ethics is a contentious area of philosophy, but I don’t think it needs to be. Rather, if we peel…
On Primitivism
I’ve got major sympathies for the philosophy of anarcho-primitivism, the idea that primitive living would make us healthier and happier. The agricultural revolution, while being necessary to sustain growing populations, brought with it poor diets, poor lifestyles, poor parenting practices, and the cancer of statism resulting in economic exploitation and poor childhood educational practices. The…
Toward a Free Society – Full Book
Toward a Free Society A Short Guide on Building a Culture of Liberty by Skyler J. Collins, Published 2015 Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalPaperback ($6) and other digital formats found here. Preface This isn’t my first publication, but it is my first publication that I authored entirely. Everything Voluntary: From Politics to Parenting…
Anarcho-Socialists and Anarcho-Capitalists — Friend or Foe?
Editor’s pick. Written by Darrell Anderson. Exchanging ideas is a challenging process all humans face. Words and language are imprecise and because all knowledge is a result of an interpretive process, exchanging ideas requires much patience between participants. One of the divided areas of ideas are those shared by people calling themselves anarcho-socialists and anarcho-capitalists…
Traveling, Spooner #15, Fallacies in General
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. The things…
Voluntaryism among Other Philosophies
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Voluntaryism is the philosophy based on the voluntary principle, that all human relations should happen voluntarily or not at all. In…