A DISPASSIONATE ASSESSMENT OF LIBERTARIANS BY RUSSELL KIRK

[ This "madness" was identified by the classical Greek philosophers (e.g., Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle) as a pneumopathological disorder, a disease of the soul. Then again, a logical positivist has no use for "the soul"; as a "metaphysical" entity, they deny its reality in principle.... ]

The Soul(mind, emotion and will) is part of the spirit and even the Spirit.. Demanding the overt or covert attack against the Holy Spirit.. even the holy spirit.. As the TOE does quite nicely by some of those infected with this "madness"..

Because if "all we are" is flesh(soulish) "the spirit" is a 2nd reality.. When the opposite is true.. A pneumopathological disorder indeed.. a disease of the soul.. This planet is infectious with this disease.. Little wonder we "MUST be born again- Jesus"..

The flesh must be divided from the spirit to even know whom we are.. Jesus ministry was filled with examples(object lessons) of his own journey from others observations of him being flesh(at the beginning) and becoming Spirit.. When it was true all along.. He was a Spirit before he was born, during his ministry, and after his bodies death.. and still is a Spirit today..

An object lesson that "we all" can learn from..
What kind of a spirit are YOU?.. is the pregnant question..
Life on this planet is a "TEST" of what exactly kind of spirit are You..
Not how smart is your human brain.. and how faithful is your flesh..

For the flesh(your flesh) can do nothing without the spirit's approval..
A pneumopathological disorder indeed.. a death sentence..
UNless you are Reborn(born again) as a new creature..
Metaphysical Physics has only one formula.. quite simply really..

Any harder to comprehend and none would survive..

Libertarians believe that at minimum, the state must protect its citizens and allow them to protect themselves. This involves both a police force and a judiciary for the adjucation of contract disputes.

Not all libertarians. The most famous libertarian, Rothbard, advocated anarchy as most consistent with the bedrock principle of libertarianism: non-initiation of force or fraud.

I'm more a Nozick style libertarian than a Rothbardian. You are correct about Rothbard, but I believe that his recipe for "competing adjudication agencies" is simply a recipe for disaster.

I believe that a single judiciary is necessary, it should just have the absolute minimum amount of power necessary to do its job, and no power to create new laws or positive rights.

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