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Loading... Human Action: A Treatise on Economics... P. Murphy, author of the The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, did something similar with Mises's Human Action and Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State. You can find those study guides, free of charge, on the Mises Institute website, natch. ... Heights, For Whom the Bell Toll, Seize the Day, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Manalive.
Currently I'm reading Human Action, City of God and Grapes of Wrath.
I'll try to read also Big Fisherman and maybe The Great Gatsby or The Pickwick Papers. I keep a few copies of Human Action lying around to impress my friends and intimidate my enemies.
The intimidation is more intense if you say "I have praxeology; I just hope I never have to use it." I tried nuking Human Action on High for 45 minutes. (My frying pan is buried under two-weeks worth of plates and dishes.) It's still not edible, but I noticed it had grown fifty new footnotes--and I think they're in German. Any other ideas?
... of scarcity.
So my metaethics is praxeological in nature, too, rather like economics is. (See Ludwig von Mises' Human Action.)
Ethics is more than that, of course. Like the tools we choose, we become attached to the ones that best serve us. We do need them, or some subset of them, ...
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