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To: independentmind; Tares; browardchad; tpaine
The Conclusion

The last paragraph's bold emphasis, is for tpaine.
126 posted on 01/15/2004 12:33:15 PM PST by KC Burke
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To: KC Burke
KC Burke wrote: The last paragraph's bold emphasis, is for tpaine.

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Oddly enough Hayeks last paragraph reinforces Klein's point as made in his review.. Here tis, as you emphasized it:

"None of these conclusions are arguments against the use of reason, but only arguments against such uses as require any exclusive and coercive powers of government; not arguments against experimentation, but arguments against all exclusive, monopolistic power to experiment in a particular field-power which brooks no alternative and which lays a claim to the possession of superior wisdom -- and against the consequent preclusion of solutions better than the ones to which those in power have committed themselves.
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Hayek previously explained this in more detail to those, -- who imo seek to see Hayek as advocating a anti-libertarian type of morality, -- here:

"The antirationalistic position here taken must not be confounded with irrationalism or any appeal to mysticism.
What is advocated here is not an abdication of reason but a rational examination of the field where reason is appropriately put in control."

Klein opined:
"Hayek's philosophy and those of Milton Friedman, David Boaz, and Charles Murray are all very similar. Rothbard's "anarcho-capitalism," too, is largely congruent. All are now properly considered to be varieties of libertarianism. Hayek wisely rejected rationalist libertarianism.

129 posted on 01/15/2004 3:21:25 PM PST by tpaine (I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy', but FRs flying monkey squad brings out the Rickenbacher in me.)
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