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Popper, Hayek and the Open Society

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Popper, Hayek and the Open Society

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Popper, Hayek and the Open Society

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Popper, Hayek and the Open Society book

ByCalvin Hayes
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 3 September 2008
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203889992
Pages 304
eBook ISBN 9780203889992
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Humanities
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Hayes, C. (2008). Popper, Hayek and the Open Society (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203889992

ABSTRACT

This is the first book to compare Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek systematically, and critically assess their contribution to the political philosophy of the Open Society. Hayes compares and contrasts their views on three key areas relevant to their political philosophy; first their views on scientific method, their views on philosophy of social science and then their moral philosophy including their meta-ethical views. The author focuses on their contributions to social science methodology, their ethical views about negative utilitarianism and negative rights, and their contrasting views on Utopianism. He finishes by arguing that their versions of liberal political philosophy are both immune to Alastair MacIntyre's critique of liberal individualism and also meet his challenge to the Enlightenment project.

Hayes' position is generally controversial in that he defends Popper and Hayek in areas where they are almost universally criticized, namely Hayek's notion of the meaninglessness of social justice and Popper's claim that there is no need for induction in either scientific reasoning or common sense reasoning. One main finding in this book concerns the two major problems that bedevil modern philosophy: induction and the is-ought problem. The author proposes an original solution to the is-ought problem as well to the infinite regress problem.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Popper, Hayek, modernity and ideology

chapter 1|13 pages

Popper, Hayek and the grand narrative of modernity

chapter 2|17 pages

Ideology, ideals and political philosophy

part |2 pages

PART II The epistemology/ethics enigma

chapter 3|12 pages

Popper in the Weimar era (1919–1933)

chapter 4|15 pages

The refutation of positivism and socialism

chapter 5|17 pages

The Open Society and the road to The Road to Serfdom

part |2 pages

PART III From epistemology and methodology to ethics and meta-ethics

chapter 6|21 pages

Historicism, scientism and collectivism

chapter 7|13 pages

Accentuating the negative: Utility and rights

chapter 8|14 pages

Is “liberal utopia” an oxymoron?

part |2 pages

PART IV The Achilles heel of the Popper–Hayek meta-theory

chapter 9|16 pages

The Achilles heel: Max Weber’s quasi-positivism

chapter 10|18 pages

Relativism, scepticism and “the Enlightenment Project”

chapter 11|12 pages

Evolutionary ethics, Darwinism and the naturalistic fallacy

part |2 pages

PART V Liberal individualism, the Enlightenment Project, justice and the Open Society

chapter 12|14 pages

MacIntyre on virtue, tradition and reason

chapter 13|14 pages

Whose justice? Which rationality?

chapter 14|16 pages

Virtue, tradition, justice and the Enlightenment Project

chapter 15|14 pages

Liberty, equality, modernity

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