All Posts Tagged With: "methodological individualism"
The Mainspring of Human Progress
William Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is the Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of business philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. “There can be no progress except through the more effective use of our individual energies.” The emblazonment of this quotation on the front cover of the new edition of Henry Grady [...]
1Jun1998 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedHuman Ignorance and Social Engineering
Throughout most of intellectual history, society has been considered to be the result of someone’s design. In his multi-volume Law, Legislation, and Liberty, the social theorist F. A. Hayek referred to this position as “constructivist rationalism” and argued vigorously against it. In his 1974 Nobel Memorial Lecture, titled “The Pretence of Knowledge,” Hayek expressed a [...]
1May1998 | Wendy McElroy | 7 comments | Continued-
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