RT Article
T1 Abraham Kuyper and Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer as Anti-Rationalist Liberals
JF A journal of church and state
VO 63
IS 2
SP 197
OP 215
A1 Freire, Lucas G.
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1764214757
AB In an insightful essay on the role of reason and tradition in classical liberal political and social thought, F. A. Hayek writes that the modern theory of liberty has been advanced by two different, often contradictory, traditions. On the one hand, “speculative and rationalistic” liberalism has aimed at some sort of revolutionary “utopia” that can be designed by the will of an individual or group of individuals. On the other hand, anti-rationalist, “empirical and unsystematic” liberalism is “based on an interpretation of traditions and institutions which had spontaneously grown up.” The main goal of this article is to explore this...
DO 10.1093/jcs/csaa029