ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A podcast about living a life of your choosing. Topics covered include financial independence, productivity, entrepreneurship, peaceful parenting, minimalism, and rational thinking.
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Average audio length:
25 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
424 episodes
since May 19, 2011
episodic
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An AI narration of the article 'A Critique of Roderick Long's Comments on Circumcision' by Jake Desyllas.
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An AI narration of the article 'A Response To Michael Huemer on Abortion' by Jake Desyllas.
Michael Huemer opens his article on abortion by describing the debate as a line-drawing exercise, in which pro-life people draw the line early and pro-choice people draw it later. This episode argues that t…
An AI narration of the article 'The Boomer Contradiction on Children's Rights' by Jake Desyllas.
Since the 1960s the West has settled on a curious pair of beliefs about children: that they have no rights at all before birth, and strong, enforceable rights the moment after it. Most people hold both…
An AI narration of the article 'The Theory of State Ownership of Children' by Jake Desyllas.
Who owns a child? One long-running answer, older than the modern state and still very much alive, is: the State does. On this theory parents are not the child's natural guardians but an obstacle — a rival …
An AI narration of the article 'Argumentation Ethics Entails Self Ownership From the Beginning of Life' by Jake Desyllas.
A reply to Stephan Kinsella's comments on an earlier critique, this episode argues that the Hoppean rights theory already settles a question Kinsella leaves open: when does an …
An AI narration of the article 'A Critique of Stephan Kinsella's Approach To Rights Theory' by Jake Desyllas.
Stephan Kinsella famously overturned the libertarian case for intellectual property by refusing to prejudge the conclusion: instead of assuming IP was valid and hunting for arguments to fi…
An AI narration of the article 'Three Views of the Relationship Between Parents and Political Authority' by Jake Desyllas.
Philosophy of the family looks like one of the least political subjects there is. This episode argues the opposite: that it is one of the most political, and that the philosop…
An AI narration of the article 'What Is The Libertarian Theory of Parental Obligations?' by Jake Desyllas.
This article examines four competing philosophical theories of the parental role within a libertarian framework: parental ownership, parenting as charity, parenting as voluntary social contra…
An AI narration of the article 'When do Parental Obligations Not Apply?' by Jake Desyllas.
The causal theory of parental responsibility grounds positive obligations in the fact that, by creating a child, parents place that child in a state of peril. But if obligations follow from action, what abou…
An AI narration of the article 'Objections Against The State-Of-Peril Argument For Parental Obligations' by Jake Desyllas.
Critics of the state-of-peril argument for parental obligations have raised many objections — that creating a child is not aggression and so cannot generate duties, that unbor…
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