ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the treatment that Ludwig Von Mises gives to causality and the problems that it presents. The study of the relation between causality and the axiom of action is perfectly delimited. Mises' objective is much more limited; focusing on the study of human action, he wonders about the relation between human action and causality. Mises never ceases repeating: ‘we must restrict our endeavors to the study of human action’. In his study of causality Mises differentiates very clearly between the basis of causality and the determination of the cause. Causality, as a praxeological category, is based on the intrinsic unity of two specific features of man, thinking and acting. In short, the Misian conception of causality is built upon two pillars: causality is a principle of human knowledge, and the determination of the cause in human action is based on the probability of case.
