Liberty, Virtue, and the Autobot Way

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché on December 8, 2009 @ 6:02 pm · 0 comments

in Aristotelian Liberalism, Austrian Economics, Featured Posts, Personal News, Science Fiction and Fantasy

That was to be the subtitle for my chapter in Open Court’s recent addition to their Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Transformers and Philosophy: More Than Meets the Mind. Alas, no subtitles made it into the book.

I have received official permission to provide a pdf copy of my chapter, “Freedom Is the Right of All Sentient Beings,” on my website. Technically, I don’t think I really need legal permission; I don’t recall signing over to Open Court the copyright that federal law automatically vests in me as the author. Anyway, download it from that link and enjoy!

The chapter title comes from a quote by Optimus Prime in the first of the recent live action movies. The chapter itself is kind of a condensed and lite version of the Aristotelian-liberal theory of virtue ethics and natural rights explained in more detail in my dissertation, applied to the transformers and to artificial intelligences more generally.

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

Related Posts

  1. Eudaimonia, Virtue, and the Right to Liberty
  2. My dissertation is completed, approved and now online
  3. Oughtism and Its Cure
  4. My JLS Atlas Shrugged Article, Finally!
  5. “The most stupid fool is better off than those who think they are wise when they are not.”
Print This Post Print This Post

Tagged as: Aristotelian Liberalism, Aristotle, Austrian Economics, Ayn Rand, justice, libertarianism, liberty, Mises, natural rights, philosophy, popular culture, Transformers, virtue ethics

Leave a Comment

Read This Before Leaving a Comment

Please make sure your comments follow these guidelines:

  • Real names preferred but not required.
  • Anonymous comments will be moderated and may not be published.
  • Comment moderation is enabled, so your comment may take some time to appear. Don\'t panic or start suspecting foul play if it doesn\'t appear immediately.
  • Strive for the ideal speech situation: civility, mutual understanding, no eristic debating tactics, no ad hominems, no foul language.

Comments that do not adhere to the last item above will be deleted or marked as SPAM at my discretion.

 

You can use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

» Comments RSS Feed


Twitter Users
Enter your personal information in the form or sign in with your Twitter account by clicking the button below.

Powered by WP Hashcash

Previous post:

Next post: