Ignorance and Liberty

ISBN-13: 9780415753869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 220 str.

Lorenzo Infantino

Opis

'Ignorance and Liberty' examines how the market is a place which liberates us from this idea of a privileged source of knowledge. The market is not only a place where goods are exchanged but also where different philosophical ideas and religious beliefs must co-habit, opening up new horizons and undermining the sense of an absolute that prevails in a closed world. 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Lorenzo Infantino