Ignorance and Liberty (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

✍ Scribed by Lorenzo Infantino

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There is a long line, running from antiquity to the present day, which unites all those who believe in an open society. This school of thought bases the demand for liberty on the recognition of human ignorance; we need to be free because we are ignorant and fallible. Ignorance and Liberty examines how the market is a place which liberates us from this idea of a priviledged 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
The liberty of the ancients compared with that of moderns......Page 19
The gnoseological roots of liberty and tribalism......Page 43
The failure of psychologism and the question of private property......Page 73
Mandeville and the Scottish moralists: the discovery of society as a spontaneous order......Page 88
Austrian marginalism: the limits of knowledge and society as a spontaneous order......Page 110
The intellectualistic hubris and the destruction of liberty......Page 139
Notes......Page 162
References......Page 204
Index......Page 217