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The Sciences of Human Action

The Sciences of Human Action
Mises Wire B.K. Marcus
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  1. Praxeology and History
  2. The Formal and Aprioristic Character of Praxeology
  3. The A Priori and Reality
  4. The Principle of Methodological Individualism
  5. The Principle of Methodological Singularism
  1. The Individual and Changing Features of Human Action
  2. The Scope and the Specific Method of History
  3. Conception and Understanding
  4. On Ideal Types
  5. The Procedure of Economics
  6. The Limitations on Praxeological Concepts
The relation between reason and experience, wrote Ludwig von Mises, has long been one of the fundamental philosophical problems. Like all other problems of the critique of knowledge, philosophers have approached it only with reference to the natural sciences. They have ignored the sciences of human action. Their contributions have been useless for praxeology. The real thing which is the subject matter of praxeology, human action, stems from the same source as human reasoning. Action and reason may even be called two different aspects of the same thing. That reason has the power to make clear through pure ratiocination the essential features of action is a consequence of the fact that action is an offshoot of reason. FULL ARTICLE
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