The majority of the intellectual leaders of the socialist movement…are socialists because socialism appears to them…as “science applied in clear awareness and with full insight to all fields of human activity.”…<\/p>\n
Compared with the work of the engineer that of the merchant is in a sense much more “social,” that is, interwoven with the free activities of other people…. His special knowledge is almost entirely knowledge of particular circumstances of time or place…. But though this knowledge is not of a kind which can be formulated in generic propositions, or acquired once for all, and though in an age of Science it is for that reason regarded as knowledge of an inferior kind, it is for all practical purposes no less important than scientific knowledge…
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\n…All we have said here is directed solely against a misuse of Science, not against the scientist in the special field where he is competent…. The main lesson at which we have arrived is indeed the same as that which one of the acutest students of scientific method has drawn…”the great lesson of humility which science teaches us, that we can never be omnipotent or omniscient, is the same as that of all great religions: man is not and never will be the god before whom he must bow down.”<\/p>\n
–F. A. Hayek, The Counter-revolution of Science: Studies in the Abuse of Reason<\/strong><\/p>\n Let scientists tell us about sciences. But government involves questions about the good for man, and justice, and what things are worth having at what price; and on these a scientific training gives a man’s opinion no added value.<\/p>\n If we are to be mothered, mother must know best…. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They “cash in.” It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science…<\/p>\n Let us not be deceived by phrases about “Man taking charge of his own destiny.” All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of others…. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be.<\/p>\n –C. S. Lewis, “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The majority of the intellectual leaders of the socialist movement…are socialists because socialism appears to them…as “science applied in clear awareness and with full insight to all fields of human activity.”… Compared with the work of the engineer that of the merchant is in a sense much more “social,” that is, interwoven with the free … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}