Hayek makes private property, gender norms, and tradition supervenient over government

Evidence

If too much democracy means too much social state, combined with too little respect for political authority, the latter problem abetted by the social state’s replacement of family functions and replacement of moral law with social justice, it is clear that Hayek’s aim for placing limits on government vastly exceeds respecting and protecting markets. Organically evolved rules of conduct, based on inherited shared principles, are not only to be left untouched, but also made supervenient. Respect for private property, gender norms, and other traditional beliefs—these are the true foundations of a free, moral and orderly society. — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, 121

Categorization

  • SEED: Shows the ‘both limiting government and expanding traditional morals’ move is coherent inside Hayek — direct material for the immodesty article’s cross-cultural frame of moral order enforced through law-like custom.
  • XREF: connects to: Expanding the personal protected sphere lets tradition recolonize formerly democratic space — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise…, 172; Hayekian freedom means coercion-free endeavor within tradition, not emancipation from norms — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise…, 159; Hayek justified private property as instrumental, not as a natural right. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 174 (+4 more)

Broader Connections