The moral dimension of Hayek's political theory.

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" The moral dimension of Hayek's political theory. "
Papaioannou, Theodoros.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1095295
Doc. No	:	TLets390829
Main Entry	:	Papaioannou, Theodoros.
Title & Author	:	The moral dimension of Hayek's political theory.\ Papaioannou, Theodoros.
College	:	University of Sussex
Date	:	2001
student score	:	2001
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	This thesis provides an 'immanent' critique of the moral dimension of Hayek'spolitical theory.The concept of morality that Hayek advances is epistemologically founded.That concept is concerned with the recognition and respect of the natural limits ofhuman knowledge and is incompatible with the idea of objective value judgement.The moral dimension of Hayek's theory is based on the methodologicalimplications of his epistemologically founded concept of morality. That dimensionconsists of the ideas of social spontaneity and cultural evolution and is incompatiblewith any concept of objective liberal values. The moral dimension of Hayek's theoryexcludes but also requires substantive politics.The moral exclusion of substantive politics' undermines freedom and equalityin catallaxy while, at the same time, it relativises commutative justice and legitimatesthe minimal state only from the point of view of its legality. Substantive politics ismorally required for preserving and promoting institutions such as catallaxy andcommutative justice in terms of liberalism.It is argued that the moral exclusion of substantive politics is due to theepistemological premises of Hayek's theory. Those premises form the praxeologicalpresuppositions of social spontaneity and cultural evolution. In terms of them,substantive politics cannot be morally explained. Substantive politics is grounded ona normative/evaluative conception of a social good. That conception depends oncritical reason in terms of which objective liberal values can be "recognised andrespected. The moral requirement of substantive politics is due to the fact that theprocess of social spontaneity and cultural evolution cannot by itself be safeguardedagainst coercion, inequality and injustice.
Subject	:	Cultural evolution; Market order; Substantive politics
Added Entry	:	University of Sussex