Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 195 pages)
ISBN:
0226321258
,
9780226321257
Series Statement:
Law, legislation, and liberty v. 2
Content:
F. A. Hayek made many valuable contributions to the field of economics as well as to the disciplines of philosophy and politics. This volume represents the second of Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Here, Hayek expounds his conviction that he continued unexamined pursuit of "social justice" will contribute to the erosion of personal liberties and encourage the advent of totalitarianism.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Corrigenda to Volume I -- 7. General Welfare and Particular Purposes -- In a free society the general good consists principally in the facilities for the pursuit of unknown purposes -- The general interest and collective goods -- Rules and ignorance -- The significance of abstract rules in a world in which most of the particulars are unknown -- Will and opinion, ends and values, commands and rules, and other terminological issues -- Abstract rules operate as ultimate values because they serve unknown particular ends -- The constructivist fallacy of utilitarianism -- All valid criticism or improvement of rules of conduct must proceed within agiven system of rules -- 'Generalization' and the test of universalizability -- To perform their functions rules must be applied throughout the long run -- 8. The Quest for Justice -- Justice is an attribute of human conduct -- Justice and the law -- Rules of just conduct are generally prohibitions of unjust conduct -- Not only the rules of just conduct, but also the test of their justice, are negative -- The significance of the negative character of the test of injustice -- The ideology of legal positivism -- The 'pure theory of law' -- Law and morals -- The 'law of nature' -- Law and sovereignty -- 9. 'Social' or Distributive Justice -- The concept of 'social justice' -- The conquest of public imagination by 'social justice' -- The inapplicability of the concept of justice to the results of a spontaneous process -- The rationale of the economic game in which only the conduct of the players but not the result can be just -- The alleged necessity of a belief in the justice of rewards -- There is no 'value to society' -- The meaning of 'social' -- 'Social justice' and equality -- 'Equality of opportunity' -- 'Social justice' and freedom under the law.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226320820
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226320823
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0226320839
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226320830
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992 Mirage of social justice Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1976
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
Author information:
Hayek, Friedrich A. von 1899-1992
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