
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Part 1
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Reason and Reason Are Unnatural
Liberalism's plans for eternal peace are the outcome of an illusory rationalism contrary to the natural order. Wars, civil wars and revolutions are detrimental to man's success in the struggle for istence because they disintegrate the apparatus of social co operation. Human reason is inferior to the animal instincts and impulses. Action is preceded by thinking. Every action is always based on a definite idea about causal relations. He who thinks a causal relation thinks a theorem. Man alone can arrange his various observations and expe ces into a coherent system. Thinking is to deliberate beforehand over future action and to reflect afterward upon past action. It deals with reason only as far as enables man to act.
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