F. A. Hayek
The knowledge-problem and rule-of-law spine; the strongest objection — an indefinite aim confers no limit — absorbed by making the vector diagnostic, never operative.
Edition read. The Constitution of Liberty (Definitive Edition), read in full — eight thematic close-reads.
What we took
Composes more of the spine than any other liberal: the dispersed-and-tacit-knowledge ceiling on the sensor; the unsteered zone as a discovery organ whose value is precisely the unforeseeable; spontaneous order and the gardener-not-painter posture; and — decisively — the rule of law as the very form of correction (law-vs-command, generality, non-retroactivity, no self-exemption). Plus limited democracy as a method not an authority, value ≠ merit, and the minimum floor, which Hayek himself endorses.
Where we diverge — and how we answer
His strongest objection — an indefinite aim confers no limit on power — is absorbed by fixing the value vector as a diagnostic aim, never an operative warrant, with the vote bounded to the ascertained and the discovery frontier walled off. The residual divergence is quarantined to steering above the floor and the legal form of cohort corrections; his own Finer citation pre-refutes any defence-by-democratic-pedigree, so the doctrine defends the vote structurally.
The net position
The sharpest foundational interlocutor since Mises — composer, strongest objector, and bounded dissenter; Old-Whig in temper, and its very method is Hayek's own.
Every position is read at the source. See the whole register on Lineage & Critique, or the doctrine itself in The System.