Happy Birthday to the great social scientist F.A. Hayek! If it is true that the spontaneous interplay of social forces sometimes solves problems no individual mind could consciously solve, or perhaps even perceives, and if they thereby create an ordered structure which increases the power of the individuals without having been designed by any one of them, they are superior to conscious action. Indeed, any social processes which deserve to be called “social” in distinction to the action of individuals are almost ex definitione not conscious. In so far as such processes are capable of producing a useful order which could not have been produced by conscious direction, any attempt to make them subject to such direction would necessarily mean that we restrict what social activity can achieve to the inferior capacity of the individual mind. - The Counter-Revolution of Science
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 13:01:25 +0000
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