Chapter 1: The Human Mind
Chapter 2: The Activistic Basis of Knowledge
Chapter 3: Necessity and Volition
Chapter 4: Certainty and Uncertainty
Chapter 5: On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics
Chapter 6: Further Implications of the Neglect of Economic Thinking
Chapter 7: The Epistemological Roots of Monism
Chapter 8: Positivism and the Crisis of Western Civilization
1. The Permanent Substratum of Epistemology
Πάντα ερί, everything is in a ceaseless flux, says Heraclitus; there is no permanent being; all is change and becoming. It must be left to metaphysical speculation to deal with the problems whether this proposition can be borne out from the point of view of a superhuman intelligence and furthermore whether it is possible for a human mind to think of change without implying the concept of a substratum that, while it changes, remains in some regard and sense constant in the succession of its various states.
2. The Nature of Intervention
The problem of interventionism must not be confused with that of socialism. We are not dealing here with the question of whether or not socialism in any form is conceivable or realizable. We are not here seeking an answer to the question of whether human society can be built on public property in the means of production. The problem at hand is, What are the consequences of government and other interventions in the private property order? Can they achieve the result they are supposed to achieve?
A precise definition of the concept “intervention” is now in order.
