Mises had hoped that democracy would lead to free societies after World War II ended. He did not foresee the illiberal turn in the West in the last decade.
Fabricio Terán
Fabricio Terán is the Spanish translator for mises.org and founder of the Mises Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Hispanic Mises Institute). He is a PhD candidate in economics at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, and he holds a master in Austrian economics from the same university. He is also a lawyer certified in alternative dispute resolution.
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Previously I explained Ludwig von Mises’s descriptive philosophy of the consent of individuals as the only thing that gives value to norms and authority. Individuals interpret norms and authority as...
Mises saw essentialist values as fallacies because they were unverifiable and saw metaphysical ideas as a key component of authoritarianism. His solution was utilitarianism.
