Study On Hayekian Liberalistic Economic And Social Theory

Friedrich August von Hayek is a famous economist and political philosopher in 20th. This dissertation studies his social and economic thought.Free market economy is currently one of most powerful economic propositions. Since 17th, liberalism has been the mainstream ideology in Western Society, and generally, the appeal to liberalism is getting stronger in one capitalist country as the country is getting more advanced. The trend is so obvious that when people rethink the relation between advance and liberty, they often view the appealing to liberalism is the sufficient and necessary condition of social and economic developing, ignoring the historical and some other factors, and even reversing the cause and effect.Undoubtedly, Hayek is an outstanding representative who defends the free market economy and liberalism uncompromisingly. One cannot ignores Hayek's thought since he wants to study liberalism and market economy. Meanwhile, Hayek also belongs to and is very important one of this kind of political economists who view economics not only relating to some concrete political philosophic issues, but also being able to provide some resolution to the general, abstract, basic philosophic issues. Despite I critique Hayek's theoretics due to it's a lot of questionable flaw, and prove that the basis of his whole theoretic building is so instable that the building itself is between the beetle and the block, it does not mean that we should not see him as one of the great thinkers and moral forthgoers.There are two guidelines running through the whole study. The first is that this thesis deals a lot with Hayekian epistemology and liberalism. The reason is obvious: Hayek establish his thought of spontaneous market order on the basis of his epistemology and liberalism; one who wants to study Hayek's free market theory ignores these foundation cannot grasp the essence of his thought and cannot study deeply. The second, although Hayekian thought and value belongs to liberalism, and he is viewed as the biggest theoretic enemy against Socialism, it should not be treated as totally worthless. On the contrary, we should study his thought more carefully, assimilate the reasonable factor of it when critique the fallacious part, and use the correct part to complement and assist our Socialism constructing.The basic think of this thesis is, at first, summarize the whole system of Hayekian thought, and tidy up his epistemology, critical rationalism, literalism, viewpoint of rule of law, cultural evolutionism respectively. Meanwhile, show the skeleton of his thought system, comb his complex category system and theoretic inner structure. Then, discuss the three levels of his theoretic building respectively from superficial to profound.The first level is the understanding of Hayek's basic values of social order, such as liberty, democracy, equality, as so on, which is the surface layer of his thought.This second level is his cultural evolutionism, which can be viewed as the mid-level of his theory.The third leave, also the foundation of his while theoretic building, is Hayek's epistemology and critical rationalism.This dissertation conclude 6 chapters. The first chapter is introduction. The second chapter is"Summary of Hayekian Social and Economic Theory", which tidies up the Hayekian thought, represent his own opinion without comments.The third chapter is"Rethinking on the Basic Value of Free Market Economic Order". The whole building of Hayek's theory is constructed from economics issues.This chapter discusses that if the free market economy can serve"liberty"rightly, and then realize the purpose that everybody equals.The fourth chapter is"On Hayekian Cultural Evolutionism". The cultural evolutionism is importantly one of Hayek's whole theory system, it is also the debating foundation of commonly behavior rule and spontaneity society order. Form the basis, it form special law view, freedom view, and free market economy theory for Hayek. The evolution mechanism and the philosophic puzzledom will be discussed in this chapter about cultural evolutionism. It will point out the result that the applied of civilization evolutionism conflict with the Hayekian ideology The fifth chapter is"The Epistemological Issues on Hayekian Limited Rationalism and the Paradox of Its Application". The limited rationalism is the basis of Hayek's whole theory system. In this chapter, I discuss Hayekian subjectivism epistemology in detail. On the one hand, it is the reasonable to build rationalistic animadvert, on the other hand, it is obvious misleading. He thinks the socialism same to the Planned Economy in which basic problem exist all the way. The"socialism"he animadvert is a theoretic illusion that none influential ideologist ever persisted in.The Sixth chapter is"The Issues of Freedom and Evolvement of Society and Institution----On the Standpoint of Historical Materialism". In this chapter, I come back to the correctly epistemology, which is the Marxist historical materialism, and comparing Hayekian ideology with Marxist ideology.In the epilogue part, the thesis discusses the source of Hayekian fallacious ideology system——dualism method, and point out the theory based on this method is very valuable. Hayek proposes a lot of very helpful advices in his social and economic research area, which can be used to assist our socialism constructing.