Abstract
Autore:
Birner Jack
Titolo:
"Karl Popper e Friedrich von Hayek: uniti e divisi dal razionalismo"
Karl Popper and Friedrich von Hayek became close friends soon after they first met in 1933. Ever since, they discussed their ideas intensively on many occasions. But even though an analysis of the origins and contents of their ideas and of their correspondence reveals a number of important and fundamental differences, they rarely criticize each other in their published work. The article analyzes in particular the different ideas they have on the role of reason in society and on rationalism, and the roots of these differences – which may be reconstructed as lying in the work of David Hume and Immanuel Kant. Popper’s Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition of 1948 contains a criticism of Hayek’s idea published, for instance, in Individualism: True and False of 1945, that we must accept tradition without trying to change it. An analysis of the differences between the two authors touches upon topics such as the possibility of public intervention in society, the role of social science in this, the methodology of social science, and the differences between conservatism and social democracy. Some possible explanations are given for Popper’s and Hayek’s downplaying their differences in public.
