The Anti-Naturalistic Legacy of Menger and Mises

Piotr Szafruga

doi:10.2478/slgr-2019-0006

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The Anti-Naturalistic Legacy of Menger and Mises

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

Volume 57 (2019): Issue 1 (March 2019)

By: Piotr Szafruga

Open Access

|Jul 2019

Abstract

The article focuses on the anti-naturalism of Menger and Mises. It presents a methodological approach formulated by both scholars as stemming from epistemological anti-naturalism and demonstrating similarities to social phenomenology. The article also discusses the development of the anti-naturalistic perspective on the basis of Hayek’s conception of sensory order. The latter allowed addressing the problem of validity of methodological dualism and established a sound foundation for the methodological approach of the Austrian School of Economics.

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