itz states that with the rise of the “Social Gospels”, which for him means big government, whose promotion was that liberty is a doctrine of the corrupt, ruthless and, selfish in society. Optiz tries to revert this idea by promoting liberty that exemplifies a true meaning of Jesus. F. A. Hayek’s aim, he said, was to “restate” or systematize those basic principles whose observance generated and sustain Western constitutional government and the free society (5). The “classical liberal” principles that inspired and guided Hayek were the same that Smith, Burke and Locke promoted. Hayek represented the same political tradition. Not only did he hold the same political philosophy, but also he had similar views regarding the nature of society, the role reason played in society, the proper tasks of government, and even though Hayek was not very religious he had somewhat the same views on moral rules. As Hayek made clear in The Road to Serfdom, classical liberalism’s conflict with central planning was not over the shared goal of enhancing the well being of the greatest possible number of people but over the way to achieve that goal. Hayek’s thesis in The Road to Serfdom is that one intervention inevitably leads to another (6). The unintended consequences of each market intervention are economic distortions and pitfalls in a system. Each intervention generates further interventions to correct the previous one. This interventionist theory leads society down the road to serfdom. We must remember that The Road to Serfdom was written in 1944 at the height of the nave leftist faith of control and planned economic policy. Central to Hayek’s doctrine is the believe that self-interested behavior can be the source for great societal good. In addition, Hayek also holds dear the Whigian hatred of arbitrary power, and how to prevent arbitrary action by a government be...
