“If man is not to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the social order,” wrote F.A. Hayek in “The Pretence of Knowledge,” he will first need to recognize the “insuperable limits to his knowledge.” He will need to discover a “lesson of humility which should guard him against becoming an accomplice in mens fatal striving to control society — a striving which makes him not only a tyrant over his fellows, but which may well make him the destroyer of a civilization which no brain has designed but which has grown from the free efforts of millions of individuals.” The Pretense of the State of the Union bit.ly/18438TL at FEE by Jeffrey A. Tucker #SOTU #StateOfTheUnion #Obama #Congress #Hayek #tcot #tlot
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:53:55 +0000