Abstract

This paper attempts to reconcile the current controversy between liberalism and communitarianism in moral and political philosophy, referring to the lessons of the Methodenstreit (controversy on method) between theoretical and historical economists at the end of the 19th century in Austria and Germany. The Methodenstreit was a confrontation between Carl Menger and Gustav von Schmoller, or between the Austrian School of Economics and the German Historical School of Economics; it was alleged as a controversy about the relative superiority of a theoretical-deductive individualistic approach versus an historical-inductive-holistic approach.

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