Hayek believed European experience of civilization’s decay gave European thinkers unique lessons.

Evidence

In his opening address at the society’s inaugural meeting, Friedrich Hayek said that the experience of the ‘actual decay of civilization’ had taught European thinkers lessons not yet learnt in the UK and the United States. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 69

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Europeans made sense of the world through an inside-outside binary framing — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 192

Broader Connections