Sunday, September 12, 2004

Read, Just Now

“The scope of praxeology is the explanation of the category of human action.  All that is needed for the deduction of all praxeological theoroms is knowledge of the essence of human action.  It is a knowledge that is our own because we are men; no being of human descent that pathological conditions have not reduced to merely vegatative existence lacks it.  No special experience is needed in order to comprehend these theorems, and no experience, however rich, could disclose them to a being who did not know a priori what human action is.  The only way to a cognition of these theorems is logical analysis of our inherent knowledge of the category of action.  We must bethink ourselves and reflect upon the structure of human action.  Like logic and mathematics, praxeological knowledge is in us; it does not come from without.”

Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, A Treatise on Economics, Third Revised Edition, 1963 Chapter II. The Epistemological Problems of the Sciences of Human Action, 10 The Procedure of Economics, pg. 64

Posted by John Venlet on 09/12 at 08:00 AM
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