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Compares Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek systematically and critically assessing their contribution to the political philosophy of the Open Society
pt. I. Popper, Hayek, modernity and ideology --1. Popper, Hayek and the grand narrative of modernity --2. Ideology, ideals and political philosophy -- pt. 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 --pt. 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? -- pt. IV. The Achilles heel of the Popper-Hayek meta-theory -- 9. The Achilles heel : Max Weber's quasi-positivism -- 10. Relativism, scepticism and "the Enlightenment Project" -- 11. Evolutionary ethics, Darwinism and the naturalistic fallacy -- pt. 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 in the Enlightenment Project -- 15. Liberty, equality, modernity -- Epilogue : Marx, MacIntyre, modernity and the Lenin-Lennon dilemma.
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Hayek, Friedrich A [ (Friedrich August)]