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Popper, Hayek and the Open Society Calvin Hayes (Brock University, Canada)

Popper, Hayek and the Open Society By Calvin Hayes (Brock University, Canada)

Popper, Hayek and the Open Society by Calvin Hayes (Brock University, Canada)


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This book compares Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek systematically and critically assessing their contribution to the political philosophy of the Open Society and is controversial in that they are defended in areas where they are usually criticized.

Popper, Hayek and the Open Society Summary

Popper, Hayek and the Open Society by Calvin Hayes (Brock University, Canada)

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.

About Calvin Hayes (Brock University, Canada)

Calvin Hayes is Professor at Brock University in Ontario, Canada and the author of Fallibilism, Democracy and the Market. Many of the works of Hayek and Popper are published as Routledge Classics.

Table of Contents

Contents, Preface, Introduction, PART I Popper, Hayek, Modernity and Ideology, 1 Popper, Hayek, and The Grand Narrative of Modernity, 2 Ideology, Ideals, and Political Philosophy, PART II The Epistemology/Ethics Enigma, 3 Popper in the Weimar Era (1919-1933), 4 The Refutation of Positivism and Socialism, 5 The Open Society and the Road to 'The Road to Serfdom', PART III From Epistemology and Methodology to Ethics and Meta-ethics, 6 Historicism, Scientism, and Collectivism,7 Accentuating the Negative: Utility and Rights, 8 Is Liberal Utopia an Oxymoron?, Part IV The Achilles Heel of the Popper Hayek Theory and how to Heal it, 9 The Achilles Heel: Max Weber's quasi-positivism, 10 Relativism, Skepticism, and The Enlightenment Project, 11 Evolutionary Ethics, Darwinism, and the Naturalistic Fallacy, Part V Liberal Individualism, the Enlightenment Project, Justice, and the Open Society, 12 MacIntyre on Virtue, Tradition, and Reason, 13 Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, 14 Virtue, Tradition, Justice, and the Enlightenment Project, 15 Liberty, Equality, Modernity

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NPB9780415772891
9780415772891
0415772893
Popper, Hayek and the Open Society by Calvin Hayes (Brock University, Canada)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2008-09-03
304
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