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Frank Van Dun
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“There are then, at least two dialectical truths. The first is that you and I are reasonable creatures; the second that you and I ought to be reasonable. Because of the second, we can say not merely that we cannot reasonably deny the first, but also that we ought not to deny it. If these dialectical propositions are errors, they are irrefutable errors: there is no way for men qua rational creatures to find out what is wrong with them, just as there is no way for men qua rational creatures to cast doubt on their truth.”
Frank Van Dun (born 1947) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Logic of Common Morality", from E.M. Barth and J.L. Martens, eds., Argumentation Approaches to Theory Formation: Containing the contributions to the Groningen Conference on the Theory of Argumentation, October 1978 …
“A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person’s control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling, thought, and speech. By extension, a natural right is what a person brings under his control without violating any other person’s natural rights.”
Frank Van Dun (born 1947) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Natural Law, Liberalism and Christianity (2001).
“As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one’s master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.”
Frank Van Dun (born 1947) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Perfect Law of Freedom (2004).
“An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.”
Frank Van Dun (born 1947) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: E-mail to LewRockwell.com (2004-01-20).
“I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.”
Frank Van Dun (born 1947) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Argumentation Ethics and the Philosophy of Freedom," Ludwig von Mises Institute (2006-08-22).