Retrieving liberalism from rationalist constructivism. Volume I, History and its betrayal / Walter B. Weimer.
Weimer, Walter B., author.
2022
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Title Retrieving liberalism from rationalist constructivism. Volume I, History and its betrayal / Walter B. Weimer.
Author Weimer, Walter B., author.
ISBN 9783030948580 (electronic bk.)
3030948587 (electronic bk.)
9783030948573
3030948579
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94858-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-94858-0 doi
Call Number JC574
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.5/12
Summary This first volume, History and its Betrayal, traces the development of major themes of liberalism from the increase in human population beyond the limits of the face-to-face society of tribalism and small groups up until the present day. It shows that the principles underlying liberalism are the evolutionary development of social organizations that have resulted from the complexity of human action rather than any conscious design or purpose. This book draws out the differences between the classical liberalism dependent upon spontaneous and tacit ordering as a result of evolution, and the explicit or conscious or directed version of progressivism. It shows that the most important recent developments in the philosophy of rationality and the methodology of scientific research, as well as in evolutionary epistemology and the philosophy of biology, actually stem from the theories of complex social organization of the moralists such as Hume, Ferguson, and Smith. The book shows clearly that classical liberalism was never refutedindeed, no attempt to do so has been offeredit has simply been ignored in favour of programs which sound beneficial and soothing but which cannot be instituted without returning to tribalism. Walter B. Weimer is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University. He was instrumental in bringing Hayeks philosophical psychology both to a psychology audience and to an economics audience.
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Series Palgrave studies in classical liberalism.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The history of the conflict: from the Greeks to the Middle Ages
Chapter 3: The history of the conflict: Descartes, the Enlightenment, and positivism
Chapter 4: History rewritten: the 20th century constructivist interpretation of classic liberalism
Chapter 5: The new enlightenment: Russell on organization and socialism
Chapter 6: The new enlightenment: Chomsky on Cartesian linguistics and anarchist socialism
Chapter 7: The new enlightenment: Skinner and the search for system
Chapter 8: The new enlightenment: The abandoned road
Chapter 9: Rationalist constructivism in protest song rhetoric
Chapter 10: Retrieving history: liberalism and the study of spontaneous social orders
Chapter 11: Retrieving history: the legacy of David Hume
Chapter 12: Toward a rational theory of tradition: order, knowledge, tradition
Chapter 13: Toward a rational theory of tradition: methodological and conceptual issues. .

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