Description - Ignorance and Liberty by Lorenzo Infantino
There is a long line, running from antiquity to the present day, which unites all those who believe in an open society. This school of thought bases the demand for liberty on the recognition of human ignorance; we need to be free because we are ignorant and fallible. Free social cooperation permits us to mobilize our knowledge and develop methods of discovery through which we can explore the unknown and continually correct our errors. To assent to free cooperation is to accept critical discussion, democracy and the market and in this way we are able to increase our rationality and further political and economic development. Improvement in the conditions of our lives, therefore, does not come from the omniscience attributed to some enlightened legislator or planner. Ignorance and Liberty examines how the market is a place which liberates us from this idea of a privileged source of knowledge. The market is not only a place where goods are exchanged but also where different philosophical ideas and religious beliefs must co-habit, opening up new horizons and undermining the sense of an absolute that prevails in a closed world.
Topics addressed include: * The Liberty of the Ancients compared with that of the Moderns * The Failure of Psycologism and the Question of Private Property * Mandeville and The Scottish Moralists * Austrian Marginalism * The Destruction of Liberty Ignorance and Liberty will be of vital interest to the research community and advanced students in the fields of political theory, political philosophy, the history of ideas and social theory and follows Infantino's Individualism in Modern Thought (Routledge, 1998).
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