1st Edition

Ignorance and Liberty

By Lorenzo Infantino Copyright 2003
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Those with a belief in open society base the demand for liberty on the recognition of human ignorance; we need to be free because we are ignorant and fallible. Free social cooperation permits us to mobilize our knowledge and develop methods of discovery through which we can explore the unknown and continually correct our errors. To assent to free cooperation is to accept critical discussion,... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Liberty of the Ancients Compared With That of Moderns  3. The Gnoseological Roots of Liberty and Tribalism  4. The Failure of Psycologism and the Question of Private Property  5. Mandeville and The Scottish Moralists: The Discovery of Society as a Spontaneous Order  6. Austrian Marginalism: The Limits of Knowledge and Society as a Spontaneous Order  7. The Intellectualistic Hubris and the Destruction of Liberty

Biography

Lorenzo Infantino