By Mark Notturno
Karl Popper and Friedrich von Hayek are remembered as of the 20th century’s maximum proponents of open society. despite the fact that, through the years, Hayek’s principles have tended to be favoured over Popper’s in either educational and political discussions. This publication goals to enhance realizing of Popper’s and Hayek’s philosophies through explaining their changes, and when doing so, to motivate liberal political philosophers to take a better-informed and extra sympathetic examine Popper’s principles approximately open society.
Popper and Hayek differed in sophisticated yet primary methods approximately rationality, economism, and democracy. They therefore differed approximately even if and to what quantity society is easily served by means of planned makes an attempt at social engineering and executive intervention within the financial system. additionally they differed approximately even if democracy is healthier served by means of associations designed to select the easiest leaders, or by means of associations designed to guard us opposed to the leaders we decide. and so they differed, possibly most significantly, approximately no matter if we should always price freedom as a way to prosperity or an end-in-itself.
This booklet argues that Hayek’s perspectives approximately rationality, economism, and democracy are essentially at odds with Popper’s¾ and even perhaps with open society itself―and that the accidental results of Hayek’s perspectives may very well pose a probability to Popper’s imaginative and prescient of a liberal and unfastened open society.
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A. 2000. Science and the Open Society: The Future of Karl Popper’s Philosophy. CEU Press, Budapest. A. 2000a. ‘Popper’s Critique of Scientific Socialism, or Carnap and His CoWorkers’ in (Notturno 2000, 163–94). Popper, Karl R. [1945a] 1999a. The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1, The Spell of Plato. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. Reprinted by Routledge. Popper, Karl R. [1945b] 1999b. The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 2, The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx and the Aftermath. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.
Popper first wrote to Hayek about scientism on 16 December 1943. He had just finished reading Hayek’s two articles and told him that he was ‘excited and thrilled’ by them. He said that he and Hayek were fighting ‘parallel actions on different frontiers’. ‘You are fighting “scientism” ’, he said, ‘I fight, rather, “philosophism”. But we both fight collectivism’ (Popper 1943). He said: That collectivism in our own time appears in a ‘scientistic’ cloak is undeniable, and I have, by implication, admitted it when making Marx (whose undoubtedly ‘scientistic’ methodological determinism I emphasized by making it my starting point) the main hero of my modern part.
4 By ‘the classical liberal cause’ I mean the European liberal cause, which sought to limit the powers of government, and not the modern American liberal cause, which is typically in favor of a far more expansive role for government. I will, unless otherwise indicated, use the terms ‘liberal’ and ‘liberalism’ in their classical senses throughout this book. A. [1944] 1976. The Road To Serfdom. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. A. 1978. The Hayek Interviews. Pacific Academy for Advanced Studies.