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ipndrmath
Initiate Usergroup: Members Joined: Nov 18, 2009 Total Topics: 1 Total Posts: 3 |
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Subject: Right to do anything in which you are capable. I am looking for the name of a philosophy in which an individual retains the right to do anything that he is capable of doing regardless of its effects on others. I'm sure such an ideal exists, but my Google skills were unable to return any helpful results.  Thanks Guys! |
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unenlightened
modern poster  Usergroup: Administrators Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Location: Wales Total Topics: 42 Total Posts: 4515 |
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I think it's called psychopathy. ...most of our actions are the result of the past, or according to a future ideal. That's not action, that is just conformity. J Krishnamurti "Philosophy, to the Philistine, is an evolutionary process, watched over by some sort of brisk dynamic Providence, and culminating in the supreme insight of modern thought." John Cowper Powys |
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ipndrmath
Initiate Usergroup: Members Joined: Nov 18, 2009 Total Topics: 1 Total Posts: 3 |
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Valid Point. Not the answer I was looking for, but still a valid point. Actually, the more I think about it, I'm not even quite sure what I'm looking for. I suppose it's a mix between anarchy and social Darwinism [on an individual scale]. |
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unenlightened
modern poster Usergroup: Administrators Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Location: Wales Total Topics: 42 Total Posts: 4515 |
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You might try 'moral nihilism', but to talk about rights implies that there is a morality of some sort. when you say 'I have a right...' it tends to imply that another has a duty to allow you. We can't all have the right to do whatever we are capable of, because I may be capable of preventing you from doing something that you are otherwise capable of. The only one I can think of that comes close to that is the doctrine of the divine right of kings. Are you a king by any chance? 
...most of our actions are the result of the past, or according to a future ideal. That's not action, that is just conformity. J Krishnamurti "Philosophy, to the Philistine, is an evolutionary process, watched over by some sort of brisk dynamic Providence, and culminating in the supreme insight of modern thought." John Cowper Powys |
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thewatcher
Tenured Poster Usergroup: Members Joined: Mar 19, 2009 Total Topics: 44 Total Posts: 1176 |
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Hobbes holds that people have an absolute right to do whatever it is in their power to do. Unfortunately, the consequences of actually keeping this right is so horrific that people are inevitably called upon to give it up. |
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180 Proof
kynic  Usergroup: Sponsors Joined: Apr 27, 2003 Location: reason's raggedy edge ... Total Topics: 108 Total Posts: 5931 |
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jpmdrmath wrote: I am looking for the name of a philosophy in which an individual retains the right to do anything that he is capable of doing regardless of its effects on others. A few 'dogmas' (i.e. ego-fantasies) come to mind: Amoralism Illegalism Egoism Solipsism Onanism 
Edited by 180 Proof on Nov 18, 2009 - 11:04 PM. Reason: Ipsa-ting, what else? the where of space? the when of time? the edge of an unbounded surface? the cause of causality? willing separate from acting? disembodied personality? symphony without orchestra? ideal reality? real concepts? 'higher truth' via contradiction? non-propositional truths? context-free questions? unconditional objects? maps which transcend their terrain? the truth of logic? facts indistinguishable from fictions? answering questions with mysteries? anthropomorphic unknowns? ... o_O only placebos require 'faith'. THINKING won't kill you, but it might make you stronger! |
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psychotick
Dazed and confused Usergroup: Members Joined: Oct 05, 2009 Total Topics: 8 Total Posts: 379 |
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Hi, Divine Right - Gods do pretty much what they want so I understand. Laissez faire capitalism. Cheers. |
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ciceronianus
Attorney at Natural Law  Usergroup: Members Joined: Sep 20, 2008 Location: USA Total Topics: 18 Total Posts: 1609 Last Blog: On the Death of Death in the Afternoon |
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Sociopathic subjectivism. "Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts."--C.S. Peirce "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."--Marcus Tullius Cicero "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men."--John Dewey |
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Hanover
The Highest Rank Possible  Usergroup: Sponsors Joined: Nov 30, 2008 Location: Atlanta Total Topics: 16 Total Posts: 1629 |
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G.W. Bushism "Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway." Holden Caulfield |
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To Mega Therion
Dogmatist en chef  Usergroup: Members Joined: Oct 11, 2009 Location: Zagreb, Croatia Total Topics: 20 Total Posts: 699 |
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Onanism? Heh, did nobody catch that one or...? As for Stirner, I don't see him as arguing for a right to do anything one wants; after all the notion seems silly since rights are nothing if not imposed somehow. And not even the doctrine of the Divine Right held a king could do anything (see for example Suarez's discussion of regicide). Get down on your knees If you want to touch the sky If you want to see clearly now You better gouge out your eyes. - Chemlab, Neurozone |
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