The Counter-Revolution of Science Author: F. A. Hayek He begins by defining "scientism" as a "prejudiced approach which, before it has considered its subject, claims to know what is the most appropriate way of investigating it." And he identifies the three dangerous fallacies of scientism as objectivism, collectivism, and historicism. He then returns to the origins of scientism with a penetrating analysis of its guiding lights, Saint Simon and Auguste Comte. He finds everwhere in their social theorires that assault on human freedom which is at the very heart of Marxism. |