Showing posts with label Friedrich Hayek. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friedrich Hayek. Show all posts
Monday, November 11, 2024

Did Robert Nozick hold a view of the evolution of natural rights that is similar to that held by John Hasnas?

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  This question came to mind while I was reading Chapter 4 of John Hasnas’s recently published book, Common Law Liberalism : A New Theory of...
Monday, June 17, 2024

Can discourse ethics help us to assess ideas about justice?

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This essay focuses mainly on the discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas. Habermas, who will be 95 years old tomorrow, developed a theory of c...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

How different were the views of Hayek and Rand on the role of reason?

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  I think many people who have some knowledge of the views of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek have the impression that they had vastly differen...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Did Hayek acknowledge the importance of individual self-direction in his vision of spontaneous order?

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  One of the reasons why Friedrich Hayek’s vision of spontaneous order is more attractive than collectivist alternatives is because it offer...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Is ecological justice also a mirage?

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  David Schmidtz advocates “ecological justice” in his book, Living Together : Inventing Moral Science. Although Schmidtz does not refer to ...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Was Kant a friend of reason and liberty?

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I began thinking about this question as I was reading Ronald Beiner’s recent book, Dangerous Minds . Beiner’s main point seems to be that ri...