Chandran Kukathas on Hayek's Liberalism

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 May 2008

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Friedrich Hayek was a major figure in Twentieth Century economics and political philosophy, but his ideas are sometimes caricatured, not least because Margaret Thatcher approved of his work. Chandran Kukathas explains the key features of his liberalism in this episode of Philosophy Bites.

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0:00.0	This is
0:02.0	This is Philosophy Bites with me David Edmonds
0:05.0	and me Nigel Warburton.
0:07.0	Philosophy Bites is available at
0:08.0	W.
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0:10.0	Philosophy Bites.
0:11.0	This said Margaret Thatcher after becoming leader of Britain's Conservative Party is what
0:16.2	we believe and she banged a book down on the table.
0:19.9	It was called the Constitution of Liberty and it was written by Friedrich Hayek.
0:24.9	Hayek, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and political theorist, was born into an
0:29.6	aristocratic family in Vienna but left Austria after his doctorate and went on to
0:34.7	teach in London, Chicago and Freiburg he's probably best known for his book
0:39.2	The Road to Serfdom written during World II, a passionate defense of liberalism as it faced possible extinction.
0:46.8	For a while Hayek was based at the London School of Economics, now the academic home of
0:51.4	Professor Chandran Kukutas. Ch Chandran Kukutas.
0:53.0	Chandran Kukathas, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
0:56.0	Thank you. It's nice to be here.
0:58.0	The topic we're going to focus on today is Hayek and liberalism.
1:02.0	Now for some people, Hayek isn't a liberal at all, he's a conservative,
1:05.8	he is actually a quintessential conservative thinker. I wonder if you could explain what he has to do with
1:11.3	liberalism. Well Hyac really started his life as an economist, his intellectual life, but turned his attention to political
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