Metaphysical freedom: the uses of the concept “freedom” in Karl Popper, Friedrich Von Hayek and Milton Friedman

Abstract

In the last forty years there has been a neoliberalization of the markets that affected our daily lives. This was not a spontaneous process, rather, it had its more or less precise ideologues, with less or more influence: Karl Popper, Friedrich Von Hayek and Milton Friedman. One of the categories that is usually used in this stage of capitalism is "freedom": precisely, this article aims to explore the uses that these authors make of this concept.