Teoria e História

Já está disponível o novo catálogo do Liberty Fund. Destaco a edição da colecção com as obras de Arthur Seldon e a re-edição de Theory and History, uma das mais importantes (mas menos estudadas) obras de Ludwig von Mises fora do âmbito da ciência económica.

But there is more than this in the study of history. It not only provides knowledge indispensable to preparing political decisions. It opens the mind toward an understanding of human nature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the very essence of that much miss-interpreted concept, a liberal education. It is the fore-most approach to humanism, the lore of the specifically human concerns that distinguish man from other living beings.###

The newborn child has inherited from his ancestors the physiological features of the species. He does not inherit the ideological characteristics of human existence, the desire for learning and knowing. What distinguishes civilized man from a barbarian must be acquired by every individual anew. Protracted strenuous exertion is needed to take possession of man's spiritual legacy.

-Ludwig von Mises