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The open society and its complexities /

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Main Author: Gaus, Gerald F. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Series:Philosophy, politics, and economics
Subjects:
Hayek, Friedrich A. von > (Friedrich August), > 1899-1992.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social ethics.
Liberalism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prolegomenon : Hayek's three unsettling theses
  • Beyond human nature
  • Beyond moral justification
  • Beyond human governance
  • Three enquiries on the open society
  • The rise of a normative species
  • A natural history of moral order
  • The "starting point"
  • The egalitarian revolution
  • Self-interest, reciprocity and altruism
  • Internalized, enforced, social rules
  • The other side of morality
  • Cultural evolution
  • Part I : the rise and (partial) fall of inequality
  • A complex moral species
  • The diversity and self-organized complexity
  • Liberalism and the open society
  • Understanding diversity
  • Autocatalytic diversity
  • Diversity and complexity
  • Too much complexity?
  • The morality of self-organization
  • The social contract
  • A self-organization model
  • Moral diversity In the open society
  • Part II: the complexities of self-governance
  • Self-governance
  • Macro control
  • Macro structure
  • Strategic dilemmas and polycentricity
  • Meso-level goal pursuit
  • Sectoral policy
  • Self-governance from the bottom-up : simplifying the problems of governance
  • Our moral nature and governance in the open society
  • Liberal democracy
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B.