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The open society and its complexities / Gerald Gaus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaus, Gerald F., author.
- Series:
- Philosophy, politics, and economics.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Philosophy, politics, and economics
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von (Friedrich August), 1899-1992.
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Social ethics.
- Liberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 287 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'The Open Society and Its Complexities' marshals formal models and empirical evidence to show that our open society is grounded on the moral foundations of human cooperation originating in our distant evolutionary past, but has built upon these foundation a complex society that requires us to rethink both the nature of moral justification and the meaning of democratic self-governance.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Prolegomenon : Hayek's three unsettling theses
- Beyond human nature
- Beyond moral justification
- Beyond human governance
- Three enquiries on the open society
- The rise of a normative species
- A natural history of moral order
- The "starting point"
- The egalitarian revolution
- Self-interest, reciprocity and altruism
- Internalized, enforced, social rules
- The other side of morality
- Cultural evolution
- Part I : the rise and (partial) fall of inequality
- A complex moral species
- The diversity and self-organized complexity
- Liberalism and the open society
- Understanding diversity
- Autocatalytic diversity
- Diversity and complexity
- Too much complexity?
- The morality of self-organization
- The social contract
- A self-organization model
- Moral diversity In the open society
- Part II: the complexities of self-governance
- Self-governance
- Macro control
- Macro structure
- Strategic dilemmas and polycentricity
- Meso-level goal pursuit
- Sectoral policy
- Self-governance from the bottom-up : simplifying the problems of governance
- Our moral nature and governance in the open society
- Liberal democracy
- Epilogue
- Appendix A
- Appendix B.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-064899-6
- 0-19-064900-3
- 0-19-064898-8
- OCLC:
- 1235901663
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