The conception of the man of Friedrich Hayek

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Jorge Vergara Estévez

Abstract

In this article, the author sets out the central aspects of the conception of human being of Hayek and their main intellectual antecedents. The Austrian thinker develops this conception in two levels. On the one hand, he offers a conception about what´s the human being: an individualistic being, whose historical evolution leads from “the tribal society” to the “extended society”; and it´s a creator being of norms and traditions. Of another one, how the human being is, their main dimensions are characterized: its ethics is heteronomous and immanent to the reproduction of the society; its reason is limited; is the freedom its central value, although it is limited to the economichal freedom and, finally, he to support that the human being are naturally unequal.

Author Biography

Jorge Vergara Estévez, Universidad de Chile

Dr. en Filosofía, Universidad de París VIII. Académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Chile y miembro del Grupo de Filosofía Política de CLACSO.