Humility's challenge: the political value of disperse individual experience in F. A. Hayek's thought
The meaning of Hayek's call for humility changed after the introduction of evolutionism into his thought. Initially, his call pretended to highlight the greater capacity of spontaneous orders to combine disperse knowledge of local circumstances. His account, however, was not able to fully argue...
- Autores:
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Zarama Rojas, Daniel Fernando
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2021
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/50898
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/50898
- Palabra clave:
- Hayek, Friedrich August von
Filosofía de la economía
Valores (Filosofía)
Humildad
Estado y sociedad
Economía
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | The meaning of Hayek's call for humility changed after the introduction of evolutionism into his thought. Initially, his call pretended to highlight the greater capacity of spontaneous orders to combine disperse knowledge of local circumstances. His account, however, was not able to fully argue why would such knowledge be socially valuable, why could only spontaneous orders combine it, and how could it be relevant for the political institutions of society. Then, through the introduction of evolutionism, widening his conception of knowledge, he renewed his account of social phenomena and became able to answer criticisms that could be associated with his previous works. Ever since, Hayek calls for humility points out at the potentialities of individual learning and innovation. I will argue that reinterpreting Hayek's call for humility... |
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