Dr. Edward's on Friedrich Hayek's lecture

[Malthus0]

Hayek only rejects direct utilitarian ethics because he thinks they are useless in the face of our ignorance. Hayeks ethics are a kind of indirect or system utilitarianism that values the family for its survival value through the maintanance of capitalist civilization.(division of labour ect)

[Nintendomanwill]

Interestingly this apparent contradiction in Hayek's thought (utilitarian capitalist vs mores according to successfully eudemonic tradition) elucidates the seemingly unrecognised yet salient difference between Burkean dislike of rationalism/confident amoralist utilitarianism and the apparently contradictory Burkean dislike of general principles (the latter is why Keynes liked Burke; real 'irrationalism!') so Hayek favoured discovering the principles causal of good effect not Benthamite amorality

[adagio4639]

Is Dr. Edwards aware of the fact that Hayek was not a conservative? He wrote an essay titled, Why I'm not a conservatie.

[stevemcgee99]

Important insight.