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The Open Society and Its Complexities (Hardcover)
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The Open Society and Its Complexities (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
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A mere two decades ago it was widely assumed that liberal democracy
and the Open Society it created had decisively won their
century-long struggle against authoritarianism. Although subsequent
events have shocked many, F.A. Hayek would not have been surprised
that we are in many ways disoriented by the society we have
created. As he understood it, the Open Society was a precarious
achievement in many ways at odds with our deepest moral sentiments.
His path-breaking analyses argued that the Open Society runs
against our evolved attraction to "tribalism" that the Open Society
is too complex for moral justification; and that its self-organized
complexity defies attempts at democratic governance. In his final,
wide-ranging book, Gerald Gaus critically reexamines Hayek's
analyses. Drawing on diverse work in social and moral science, Gaus
argues that Hayek's program was manifestly prescient and strikingly
sophisticated, always identifying real and pressing problems. Yet,
Gaus maintains, Hayek underestimated the resources of human
morality and the Open Society to cope with the challenges he
perceived. Gaus marshals formal models and empirical evidence to
show that our Open Society is grounded on moral foundations of
human cooperation originating in our distant evolutionary past, but
has built upon them a complex and diverse society that requires us
to rethink both the nature of moral justification and the meaning
of democratic self-governance. In these fearful, angry and
inwardly-looking times, when political philosophy has itself become
a hostile exchange between ideological camps, The Open Society and
Its Complexities shows how moral and ideological diversity, so far
from being the enemy of a free and open society, can be its
foundation.
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