Calvin Hayes

Popper, Hayek and the Open Society (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135979539
• Artikelnr.: 42977012

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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