What is anarchism?

In this episode, Ezechiel and Andy discuss anarchism. What does the word really mean? What is the relationship of anarchism to liberalism, free markets and the visions of communism? And is an anarchist state compatible with personal freedom and flourishing?

Join us for an hour-long dose of your Daily Philosophy and explore with us the philosophical issues surrounding anarchism and the ideal society.

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00:00:30 What is anarchism?
00:03:25 Marxism and anarchism
00:05:20 Self-determination and rules
00:06:06 Was the Wild West an anarchist society?
00:06:45 The problem of justice, vigilantism
00:08:17 Is the free market an anarchist model?
00:10:05 Policing the anarchist society
00:12:20 The anarchy of the Internet
00:17:40 Free speech in the anarchist society
00:25:42 What is anarchist education?
00:31:42 Discuss with us! Leave a comment!
00:32:42 History of anarchism
00:32:51 Social contract
00:33:49 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
00:34:00 Is property theft?
00:34:45 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
00:40:25 Darwinism and cooperation
00:41:00 Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
00:42:18 Are we cooperative by nature?
00:43:40 Confucianism
00:45:15 Kantian argument for anarchism
00:48:08 Anarchism and libertarianism
00:51:40 Examples of anarchic societies
00:52:52 Paris commune (1871), Amish and monks
00:58:17 What is the point of anarchism?
01:02:26 Autonomy and second-order autonomy
01:04:05 Autonomy vs freedom: Odysseus and the Sirens

Philosophers and theories mentioned:

00:32:51 Social contract
00:33:49 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
00:34:45 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
00:40:25 Darwinism and cooperation
00:41:00 Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
00:43:40 Confucianism
00:45:15 Kantian argument for anarchism

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