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2024
May 2024
Not in my
name...
Ukraine and the Empire of Lies
Maart 2024 Lezing Mises.nl Tilburg
(31-03-2024)
Powerpoint presentation
English version, expanded (with corrections)
here
2023
April 2023
Is freedom
nothing more than an instrumental value (pdf),
Draft of lecture at AEME 2023 (Austrian Economics Meeting Europe, 11-13
May, 2023).
Powerpoint presentation,
Expanded (with corrections)
here
2022 September 2022 TheTrouble
with Society (.pps)
An introduction to the philosophy of law and politics April 2022:
Corona!
Bedenkingen bij een rampzalig beleid
(maart 2020 - maart 2022) met nabeschouwingen over de coronamaatschappij
en haar plaats in de moderne geschiedenis 2021
Oktober 2021: Corona!
Bedenkingen bij een rampzalig beleid
(maart 2020 - augustus 2021) met nabeschouwingen over de coronamaatschappij
en haar plaats in de moderne geschiedenis July 2021
The Logic of the Argumentum Anselmi
On understanding Anselm's argument for the existence of God, the so-called "ontological
argument" of Proslogion 2. July 2021 Corona -
Tyranny goes viral
A summary of my Dutch text, Corona! (August 2021)
June 2021 The Social
Contract... in case you missed it
May 2021: Unde venis, iudex, et quo vadis?
Over het geloof van rechters en de institutionalisering van macht zonder
verantwoordelijkheid April 2021:
Corona!
Bedenkingen bij een rampzalig beleid
(maart 2020 - maart 2021) met nabeschouwingen over de coronamaatschappij en haar
plaats in de moderne geschiedenis 2020
December 2020 Corona!
Bedenkingen bij een rampzalig beleid
2018
June 2018.
What Exactly Did The Reformation Reform?
Philosophical reflections on pre- and post-Reformation Christianity. 2017
September 2017.
Richard Storey on "The Reactionary Libertarianism of Frank van Dun". The
body of this text consists of Richard Storey's collation of extracts from my
replies to his questions in a rather extended email conversation in 2016. (The
qualification 'reactionary' is his.)
Uprooted Liberalism and its Discontents
March 2017.
2016
Brexit: results by
voting area.
June 2016
2015
Argumentation ethics and self-ownership (again)!
June 2015. A revised reply to a revised paper (See below July 2014).
Published: Van Dun, Frank. 2015. "Reply to Andrew Young's "Argumentation
Ethics and the Question of Self-Ownership"." The Journal of Private
Enterprise, 30(3): 89-102.
Three Essays on Freedom and the Corporation (epub)
March 2015. Brings together an essay from 2003,one from 2005 and another from 2008.
In The Shadow of The Prodigy
(ebook)
In The Shadow of The Prodigy
(paperback)
March 2015. A thoroughly revised and, I hope, greatly improved
version, published for the same time in e-book format. Reviews at
the publisher's website are much appreciated.
2014
Argumentation ethics and self-ownership!
July 2014. A requested reply to yet another challenge of Hoppe's thesis.
Of cows and bitcoins;
a domestic conversation
February 2014.
2013
The limits of knee-jerk
libertarianism
October 2013.
Bruno Leoni: Praxeology and the Law
(epub)
Bruno Leoni: Praxeology and the Law
(doc)
October 2013. Draft for a lecture at the
University of Callabria, 30 / 31 October 2013
De
laatste vrijheid
Lezing "Prijs van de Vrijheid", 25-06-2013, Gent
(Definitieve versie 19-08-2013)
Anselm's ontological
argument - Synopsis.
March 2013.
2012
De Utopische verleiding (samen
met Hans Crombag)
Juni 2012. (Heruitgave van het originele boek uit 1997)
De Utopie van de Mensenrechten
Juni 2012.
2011
Recht, Markt en Staat
December 2011. Laatste versie van de syllabus "Metajuridica" (Universiteit
Maastricht, 2003) in boekformaat.
Recht en conflict in context
(pdf)
May 2011. Tekst voor het vormingsprogramma rond het thema "De advocaat"
(Balie Kortrijk 10 mei 2011)
Slides (Powerpoint)
2010
Recht
en Macht in de Moderne Tijd (pdf)
November 2010. Collegetekst
Anselm's Ontological Argument (pdf)
September 2010. What does it intend to prove? Does it succeed?
A revision of this first draft is long overdue. I am currently working on it.Watch
the video !
Freedom, Liberty, Autonomy (pdf)
May 2010. A lecture given at the University of Padua (Treviso)
2009
Excerpt from The
Shadow of the Prodigy (pdf).
July 2009. The dialogue on religion and politics.
Excerpt from The
Shadow of the Prodigy (pdf).
June 2009. The dialogue on representative democracy.
Logic of Law (pdf)
May 2009. Revised and expanded. (published in Libertarian Papers, Vol I,
2009)
Rechtspreken (pdf)
April 2009. Ontwerp voor een bijdrage tot een bundel over rechtspraak.
Crash en depressie (1988)
(pdf)
April 2009. Uit de oude doos: een beschouwing over de Grote Depressie naar
aanleiding van de crash van 1987.
Dead End
Street Blues (pdf)
January 2009. On the failures of Keynesian and neo-liberal policies.
2008
Saving in the land of good
cheer and better beer (pdf)
December 2008. On a new savings regulation.
New introduction to the course
(pdf)
December 2008. Draft.
Non-trivial pursuit:
de crisis van het vrijemarktkapitalisme (pdf)
December 2008.
Excerpt from "In the
Shadow of The Prodigy". (pdf) The dialogue on politics and
information technology.
Aquinas on the State,
Property and Taxation (pdf)
September 2008. A short reply to a question about Christian apologetics
for the State.
A
Note on Austro-libertarianism and The Corporation (pdf)
August 2008. This was written after a stimulating exchange at an IES
"Liberty seminar" in Leuven (B) on August 5.
Not
Really a Libertarian Case Against Immigration (pdf)
June 2008.
Freedom and Property: Where they conflict (pdf)
May 2008. On freedom of movement.
Naar aanleiding van de heruitgave van Het Fundamenteel
Rechtsbeginsel. (Lezing Antwerpen, 12 april 2008)
DirTree Disk Navigator
February 2008. (Build February 3,
2008).
2007
Leoni and the Law.
December 2007.
DirTree Disk Navigator (zip)
December 2007. (Build December 15,
2007: Copy-functions restored; notebook added).
Access code on request.
Reason and the Passions.
October 2007. As published in
The
Freeman.
The Shadow of The Prodigy
August 2007. A tale of the twentieth century.
Argumentation Ethics (pdf)
May 2007. An introduction to argumentation ethics and the
philosophy of freedom.
Boétie: politieke filosofie van de rede
(pdf)
February 2007. Draft of a postscript to a new (abridged) Dutch
translation of "Voluntary Slavery".
The Shadow of The Prodigy
January 2007. A tale of the twentieth century.
2006
Reason and the passions (pdf)
October 2006. Short comment on Hume's moral philosophy.
The full package (8MB)
September 2006. .
Voting (pdf)
September 2006. Reflection on voting (draft for a project
undertaken by M. Guttman)
Murphy & Callahan on
Argumentation Ethics.
August 2006. An extended comment on a their critique
of H.-H. Hoppe's use of argumentation ethics in justifying libertarianism
(draft).
The complete package (5.2
MB)
July 2006. Calculator; Dirtree, Secretary. .
Calculator / Graph plotter
July 2006. A stand-alone version of the calculator,
enhanced with a module for plotting simple and complex graphs..
A
libertarian critique of libertarian theorising
May 2006. Remarks delivered at the Property and Freedom
Society founding meeting in Bodrum, May 20th, 2006.
Droit
Naturel
March 2006. Transcription of a debate with Patrick Simon
(External link)
Concepts of Order
(pdf)
February 2006. A comparison of social and convivial order.
Evolution or Intelligent Design?
January 2006. On the sciences of life and the dogmas and
politics of evolutionism. (Extract).
2005
On Immigration, Freedom and Other
Things (pdf)
December 2005. A dialogue.
Social
Security Conundrum in Belgium
November 2005. On the Belgian government's "Intergenerational
Solidarity Pact"
Arm en grijs Vlaanderen
Oktober 2005. Nog over de problematiek van vergrijzing.
Ius Natural y Derechos
Naturales (pdf)
October 2005. Translation by
Luis Eduardo Zamorano Aragón of Natural
Law. Luis asked me to check his translation but my Spanish is not
nearly good enough. Can anybody help?
Personal Freedom,
Corporate Liberties (pdf)
October 2005. More on limited liability corporations.
Langer werken?
September 2005. Over de futiliteit van het
eindeloopbaandebat.
On Self-Ownership (pdf)
September 2005. A discussion on http://blog.mises.org/blog/archives/004055.asp
Statistics in the
Public Sphere (pdf)
August 2005. An introductory text for law students
Berichten uit de toekomst
Juli 2005. Op naar de Brave New World!
De Spin van Mia
Doornaert
Juli 2005. Naar aanleiding van de aanslagen in Londen op 7
juli 2005
The Substance and the
Shadow (pdf)
July 2005. A reflection on the erosion of the
institution of marriage.
Reconciling Freedom and Order
(pdf)
June 2005. An interpretation of Hayek's theory of order
and its relation to classical liberalism.
Afscheid Maastricht
A selection of texts from the CD that was offered to me
on the occasion of my resignation from the Law Faculty of the University
of Maastricht.
-De Consolatione Historiae (N.Baakman)
-Voor Frank: wat ons scheidt (H.Crombag)
-Waarom er geen natuurlijke rechten
zijn (J.Hage)
-Meta, macht en juristen (A.Jettinghoff)
-Frank van Dun, revolutionair en
Stoïcijn (N.Roos)
FVDCODE 2.1
April 2005. A self-extracting zip-file containing the full program
(file handling, text editor, rtf editor, agenda, notebook, archive, data
compressor, multifunctional calculator, graph plotter, evaluation of
syllogisms and logic of propositions, encryption, online help and more). Available for testing (let me know if you are
interested)
For Louis Berkvens (pdf)
A comparison of the attitudes of the historian, the
lawyer and the legal historian concerning the importance of history. (From
the archive)
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2004
The Pure Theory of
Natural Law - Part I (pdf)
November 2004. A first attempt at systematisation.
What's new? (pdf)
September 2004. On King James VI and his colonisation of Lewis.
The Perfect Law of Freedom (pdf)
September 2004. Contribution to a colloquium organised by the
Instituto Bruno Leoni in Rome 'October 1, 2004, on the CHristan origins of the
free society
Recht
en Rechtswetenschap (pdf)
Juli 2004. Mijn bijdrage aan de bundel "Over leven en recht: Opstellen
aangeboden aan Prof.mr. N.H.M. Roos" (ed. Frank van Dun), Shaker Publishing,
Maastricht 2004
Organised Chaos
April 2004. Lecture notes for a presentation at the
Libertarian Spring Convention in Leiden (the Netherlands) on April 3rd, 2004
Natural law and the Jurisprudence of
Freedom (pdf)
March 2004. Expands on the argument in 'Against
Libertarian Legalism'.
Goud en economie: Inleiding
March 2004. An introduction to a reader on gold and the
economy to be published by the Dutch Bastiatstichting.
The Science of Law and Legal
Studies (pdf)
February 2004. A logical and methodological comparison of the
study of natural law and the study of legal systems, plus an exposition of the
ideological or religious basis of legal positivism.
Toleranter dan wij zelf denken?
February 2004. Marc Hooghe over het maatschappelijk draagvlak
van het politiek correcte denken.
Political Liberalism and the Formal
Rechtsstaat (pdf)
January 2004. On eighteenth century classical liberalism and
nineteenth century political liberalism.
Vrijhandel en
globalisering: een Westers dilemma
January 2004. The debate about trade liberalisation against
the background of a century of political madness.
2003
Danneels: (nog) een gemiste kans
December 2003. Cardinal Danneels diplomatically evades a
question about the legalisation of homosexual marriage but
fails to clarify why the Church does not, and should not, give the sacrament of
marriage to homosexual couples.
Bayesianism and Austrian
Apriorism (pdf)
October 2003. A comment on an exchange between Walter Block
and Bryan Caplan.
Hobbesian democracy (pdf)
October 2003. A definition and analysis of our modern
Hobbesian democracy and a comparison with lawful democracy.
The logic of law (djvu)
September 2003. A logical analysis of the concept of law as an order of
persons.
Het land van oorsprong
September 2003. A note on the significance of borders as guarantees of
freedom.
It usually begins
at home (pdf)
July 2003. A short autobiographical note, written for Walter
Block's collection.
Vanop deze piramide kijken veertig
jaren wanbeleid op u neer (pdf)
June 2003. A critical look at some of the Belgian Government's
attempts to meet the approaching pensions-crisis.
Utopie van de mensenrechten
(pdf)
June 2003. A philosophical critique of the ruling human rights
doctrine as a manifestation of a utopian philosophy of order. Based on notes for
a lecture given to the Studium Generale of the University of Utrecht (April
22nd, 2003)
Natural
Law, A Logical Analysis
May 2003. An explication of the concept of natural law, with special
attention to the difference between artificial and natural
persons.
This paper was prepared for an issue of the electronic journal Etica é
Politica on anarchocapitalism.
De Rechtsstaat: een bescheiden voorstel
(pdf)
April 2003. A comment on the coming elections (May 18th, 2003)
for the Belgian parliament. Its main point is that those elections are supposed
to elect 'legislators', not, as the papers appear to assume, 'administrators'.
Hence, I take a careful look at the notion of the 'separation of powers'. To be
published on the Nova Civitas website.
George
Bush en de heilige oorlogen van VS (pdf)
March 2003. A critical look at the Bush administration's 'justifications'
for the invasion in Iraq.Meedenken,
tegendenken, doordenken, nadenken
March 2003. Contribution to a reader 'Academische vorming in
actie' to be published by Studium Generale, Nederland
Fiscal redistribution in a global
economy (pdf)
January 2003. How international tax shifting affects the
international distribution of wealth. Repertoried in CNE-Monatsmagazin (February-March
2003)
The logic of religion and
economic
order (DjVu)
April 2003. An analysis of diverse concepts of economic order
and their religious contexts. Dedicated to a dear friend and collegue.
The business corporation versus
the free market? (pdf)
January 2003. Why corporations in their present form
are incompatible with the free market.
2002
Lokale publieke goederen
(pdf)
December 2002. A critique of the traditional neo-classical
approach to public goods analysis, with special reference to probems of
urbanisation in the 19th century. intended for the students of the Metajuridica
course in Maastricht.
Consumentisme en verrechtsing?
December 2002. A critique on the Left's view of 'consumerism'.
Statistieken,
wetgeving en beleid (pdf)
November 2002. A short introduction to the use and abuse of
statistics, intended for the students of the Metajuridica course in Maastricht.
Recht en zedelijkheid
(pdf)
November 2002. Een kritische beschouwing over de
rechtsfilosofie van Rudolf vol Laun.
Recht en onrecht
(pdf)
June 2002. An analysis of the concept of law as an order of
persons. Prepared for the Rudolf von Laun Institute (Groningen).
Concepts of Order
(pdf)
April 2002. An essay on ordered anarchy (to be published in a
reader on ordered anarchy)
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