A propósito de austríacos e objectivistas

Não são duas escolas de pensamento fáceis de compatibilizar mas, ainda assim, tentativas como esta são de louvar: HUMAN NATURE, HUMAN ACTION, AND HUMAN FLOURISHING: TOWARD AN INTEGRATION OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS AND OBJECTIVISM, por Edward W.Younkins.

I have written several recent essays in which I have suggested the potential feasibility and desirability of combining doctrines from Austrian Economics and Objectivism in our efforts to develop the strongest possible conceptual and moral case for a free market society.(1) In these essays I argued that Austrian Economics and Objectivism can benefit from each other’s insights and that the two schools have more in common than heretofore has been appreciated.(2) My conclusion was that it may be desirable to extract, refine, extend, and fuse together the following components taken primarily from these two schools of thought: (1) an objective, realistic, natural-law-oriented metaphysics as exemplified in the works of Aristotle, Carl Menger, Ayn Rand, and in the more recent works of Murray Rothbard; (2) Ayn Rand’s epistemology which describes concepts or essences as epistemological rather than as metaphysical; (3) a biocentric theory of value as appears in the writings of Menger and Rand; (4) Misesian praxeology as a tool for understanding how people cooperate and compete and for deducing universal principles of economics; and (5) an ethic of human flourishing based on reason, free will, and individuality as suggested in the contemporary works of Tibor Machan, Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J. Den Uyl, and others.###

The purpose of this essay is to provide a clear, consistent, and accessible summary and introduction to the basic ideas contained in these earlier efforts. To help in this endeavor, I have included an exhibit providing a simplified example model or diagram of a potential Austrian-Objectivist philosophical foundation and edifice for a free society. This diagram focuses on pertinent factors, relationships, and general principles that define the proposed paradigm.