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Jan. 12th, 2007 03:53 pmSocial progress is valued, not because it extends happiness, but because it extends human intelligence. ibid. p. 50
- appears to be in conflict with religious beliefs.
From a shared belief in advancement for its own sake, Hayek and Keynes oth emphasise the responsibilities, as against the rights, of an individual. From Hayek comes the view that '[l]earnt moral rules, customs, progresively displaced innate responses, not because men recognised by reason that they were better but because they made possible the growth of an extended order exceeding anyone's vision' (Hayek 198B: 23), while Keynes quotes EJnlund Burke: 'out of the physical causes unknown to us, perhaps unknowable, arise moral duties, which, as we are perfectly able to comprehend, we re bound indispensably to perform' (Keynes; cited from Fitzgibbons 1988: 57).
p. 51.
- appears to be in conflict with religious beliefs.
From a shared belief in advancement for its own sake, Hayek and Keynes oth emphasise the responsibilities, as against the rights, of an individual. From Hayek comes the view that '[l]earnt moral rules, customs, progresively displaced innate responses, not because men recognised by reason that they were better but because they made possible the growth of an extended order exceeding anyone's vision' (Hayek 198B: 23), while Keynes quotes EJnlund Burke: 'out of the physical causes unknown to us, perhaps unknowable, arise moral duties, which, as we are perfectly able to comprehend, we re bound indispensably to perform' (Keynes; cited from Fitzgibbons 1988: 57).
p. 51.
