Hayek Liberal Order Principle "in Institutional Change Thoughts

The Constitution of Liberty is an important work of Hayek in his system info of liberalism in which Hayek made great contributions to the study of contemporary societal theory. He takes the spontaneous order as his base and clarifies his thought on institution transition.Hayek considers that the generation and evolvement of institution is spontaneous, and that it's not a deliberate construction process based on rational design. The only way of institution evolvement is a gradual trial and error procedure, but its direction and result is uncertain.Hayek's theory of institution transition comes from his view that institutions appear spontaneously. He divided the social rule into two kinds: inborn and constructive. The former refers to the institutions that appear spontaneously, the later refers to "organized" or "man-made order". On one hand Hayek picks the view that "ration is limited" and the conception of "ignorance" as his arm to animadvert "man-made order" and socialistic planned economy; on the other hand he explained his idea of "institutions appear spontaneously" via liberty, competition and the general rules, defending for capitalism.Hayek's theoretical criticism is trenchant, but his theory itself has faults. He is against rational construction, but he is a rational constructor himself; he takes "necessary ignorance" as the utter reason against institution construction , such opinion obliterates men's subjectivity and makes them lost the essence as a man also; he considers the capitalism and market economy as the best and eternal which violates the scientific theory of Marx; and the way of trial and error which he advocates greatly can only work under certain framework, it can not assure the advancement of evolution etc. The key reason for Hayek's praise of spontaneity and opposition of consciousness is that he ignores that spontaneous generation and conscious construction are both modes of institution transition, they have their own advantages and disadvantages which complement each other. We can not appreciate consciousness and depreciate spontaneity, but should make specific analysis of both of them. We can not hope to replace one totally with the other, and can not make any one of them as the reasonable mode of institution transition; it also needs leaping vicissitude—"revolution" as its complement.Hayek's theory of institution transition is profound toward which we should have a prudential attitude. We can not repulse his theory completely and can not criticize Hayek only on the standpoint of ideology. The correct way is to have a well-disposed or objective attitude, and we should recognize Hayek's theory of institution transition and its practical significance fully, draw on his philosophical thinking mode, be alert the totalitarianism autocracy, avoid the abusage of ration, ensure personal liberty, and adhere to keep and improve the socialist market economy firmly.