STUDIES OF METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL ORDER IN HAYEK’S PHILOSOPHY
In this article, methodological approaches determined specifics of Hayek’s concept of a social order are studied. They are the following: he thinks that the major purpose of science is not in determining of all facts, but in the constructing of hypothetical models; studying of a social order as a concept-complex phenomenon by abstraction and hypothetical modeling; overcoming of compartmentalization of knowledge by developing of a social theory which studies a social order based on the assumption that knowledge of all facts at the time of its inception is not feasible. Th complexity of the nature of a social order is represented by the fact that the subject of studies is not its elements, but their relations. In the context of the research, it means that the quantitative and methods of natural science cannot be used. In the research of complex phenomena, they do not bare results. On the other hand, an order understood as a totality of relations is not given to a researcher empirically in the form of an object of reality suitable for observation. Thus, we encounter another characteristic such as an abstract nature of a phenomenon of order which determines the selection of methods of abstraction and hypothetical modeling as primary research tools.