{"id":373475,"date":"2018-08-15T13:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/interview-with-murray-rothbard-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:25:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T12:25:10","slug":"interview-with-murray-rothbard-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/interview-with-murray-rothbard-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Murray Rothbard &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><em>The following is an interview conducted in the Summer of 1990 with Murray Rothbard for the Austrian Economics Newsletter.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>AEN: Any recent thoughts on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/hermeneutical-invasion\">hermeneutics<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MNR: That\u2019s a history-of-thought question, since hermeneutics has been crushed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/defense-extreme-rationalism-thoughts-donald-mccloskys-rhetoric-economics\">Hans-Hermann Hoppe<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/hermeneutics-versus-austrian-economics\">David Gordon<\/a>. Part of their critique is that the hermeneuticists were unable to demonstrate in concrete terms how this new \u201cturn\u201d would improve our understanding of economics. But if they hadn\u2019t been challenged, they could have carried on for years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AEN: The initial attraction to hermeneutics was Mises\u2019s link with certain rationalist phenomenologists. What parts of this link do you like and dislike?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MNR: The link was Alfred Sch\u00fctz. He was a free-market phenomenologist and an anti-positivist. He did excellent work attacking the positivists for dismissing minds in favor of experiments. He would then point out that you need minds to conduct and verify the experiments. Before this, Brentano was pretty close to Menger and the Austrians. The Brentanoites taught logic, reason, the science of human action, affirmed that values exist, and pursued an objective analysis of subjectivity. The thoughts of Dilthey, Windelbrand, Ricket, and Weber are useful for historical analysis, but not economic theory \u2013 Verstehen not Begreifen. In the pursuit of subjectivism, you cannot throw out science and reason. As phenomenology developed, with few exceptions, it became irrationalist and collectivist. Mises was always clear: its proponents don\u2019t understand economics.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economy-State-Power-Market-Scholars\/dp\/1933550996?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1933550996\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51yQmfaAOqL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Economy-State-Power-Market-Scholars\/dp\/1933550996?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1933550996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Man, Economy, and Stat&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Murray N. 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Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=1933550996&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>The good parts of phenomenology are already a part of the Austrian tradition, as I pointed out in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/08\/murray-n-rothbard\/interview-with-murray-rothbard-on-man-economy-and-state-mises-and-the-future-of-the-austrian-school\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an interview conducted in the Summer of 1990 with Murray Rothbard for the Austrian Economics Newsletter.\u00a0 AEN: Any recent thoughts on\u00a0hermeneutics? MNR: That\u2019s a history-of-thought question, since hermeneutics has been crushed by\u00a0Hans-Hermann Hoppe\u00a0and\u00a0David Gordon. Part of their critique is that the hermeneuticists were unable to demonstrate in concrete terms how this new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}