Category: Sophistication (Mastery)
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Thinking Against Conformity: Solitude, Judgement and Political Agency (Hannah Arendt, 1906–1975)
Hannah Arendt’s work has renewed force because it links themes that now tend to be treated apart: loneliness, solitude, critical thinking, autonomy, and political action. Read together, they raise a useful question. What sort of person can think and act with independence in a culture that places such high value on constant connection? Arendt’s political…
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Knowledge, Markets and the Limits of Social Planning (Friedrich Hayek, 1899–1992)
Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992) was an Austrian-British economist and political thinker whose work centred on a basic problem: no person or state can possess all the knowledge needed to organise a complex society. From this starting point he developed a broad defence of markets, limited government, the rule of law and individual liberty. He…
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