It is this quote that I best found to describe Friedrich August von Hayek's underlying meaning to describe his theory of spontaneous order. ... To apply Hayeks meaning of spontaneous order to our lives in a logical sense, Hayek believed that the rules people develop themselves would be pursued on a much higher level, because the rules have emerged from the people allowing a much greater level of cooperation within society, greater than that of rules produced by famous unknowns of the past. ...

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This belief is demonstrated in his quote "the organization of the State evolved as a result of free individuals consenting to be governed by an abstract authority in the interests of protecting private property." ... Perhaps his most famous work, The Social Contract, provides a blueprint for the basis of rightful political order within the existing structure of classical republicanism. ... Voltaire is considered to be one of the most famous Enlightenment philosophers. ... He became famous for his wit and satire, attacks against the Catholic Church, desire for a reformed monarchy, advocation fo...

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Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland in 1723. His father died before he was born and was raised by his mother. He attended Glasgow University for three years and later on went to Balliol College, Oxford for the next six years of his life. Afterwards, he decided to return to Kirkcadly in ...

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