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The Brazilian Philosophy Magazine Dicta & Contradicta Interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe

by Stephan Kinsella on August 1, 2013

From HansHoppe.com.

The Brazilian Philosophy Magazine Dicta & Contradicta Interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe

by STEPHAN KINSELLA on AUGUST 1, 2013[EDIT]

The Brazilian Philosophy Magazine Dicta & Contradicta Interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Would the change from a statist to a libertarian society help or hinder the production of high culture?

Hoppe: A libertarian society would be significantly more prosperous and wealthy and this would certainly help both low and high culture. But a free society – a society without taxes and tax-subsidies and without so-called “intellectual property rights” – would produce a very differentculture, with a very different set of products, producers, stars and failures.

You see a causal link between a society’s form of government and its moral values and social development. Do you see a similar link between type of government and aesthetic standards and quality of art and entertainment?

Hoppe: Yes I do. Democratic state government systematically promotes egalitarianism and relativism. In the field of human interaction, it leads to the subversion and ultimately disappearance of the idea of eternal and universal principles of justice. Law is swamped and submerged by legislation. In the field of the arts and of aesthetic judgment, democracy leads to the subversion and ultimately disappearance of the notion of beautyand universal standards of beauty. Beauty is swamped and submerged by so-called “modern art.” [click to continue…]

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