1st Edition

Popper, Hayek and the Open Society

By Calvin Hayes Copyright 2009
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.