>>12890041>this threadSo science should just submit to what fucking contemporary philosophers, of all people, say? People like Hoppe have ZERO value for a society. Even if you argue "he has value in addressing and campaining for this idea", if his idea were implemented, then he would immediately stop being useful.
Also, its not democracy that enables this system. Kings or more generally "Princes", in the sense of sovereigns, were long time patrons of art and science, and the west continued their patronage in the form of the state. And those kings were right in asking for university charters, in creating scientific societies etc. If they were merely obssessed in improving the lives of their subjects directly, they would have hit poorer results, europe would have stagnated like Qing china did. Also, Hoppe seems to think that progress comes when we want it to happen and if you struggle for it, when progress is just the byproduct of things that happen when the powerful people are more concerned with keeping the status quo. Progress is only recognised as such a posteriori.
