A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political StrugglesBasic Books, 2007 M06 5 - 352 pages Thomas Sowell’s “extraordinary” explication of the competing visions of human nature lie at the heart of our political conflicts (New York Times) Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks. |
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Ideological Origins of Political Struggles Thomas Sowell. theory. But it is the initial vision which is crucial for ... Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) may tell us more than Marx's Capital. Indeed, we may understand more of ...
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles Thomas Sowell. theory. But it is the initial vision which is crucial for ... Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) may tell us more than Marx's Capital. Indeed, we may understand more of ...
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... about human beings from reading William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice in 1793 would hardly recognize man, as he appears there, as the same being who was described in The Federalist Papers just five years earlier. The ...
... about human beings from reading William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice in 1793 would hardly recognize man, as he appears there, as the same being who was described in The Federalist Papers just five years earlier. The ...
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... on incentives rather than dispositions to get the job done. The Unconstrained Vision Perhaps no other eighteenth-century book presents such a contrast to the vision of man in Adam Smith as William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political ...
... on incentives rather than dispositions to get the job done. The Unconstrained Vision Perhaps no other eighteenth-century book presents such a contrast to the vision of man in Adam Smith as William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political ...
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Contents
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Visions of Knowledge and Reason 36 | 36 |
Visions of Social Processes 69 | 69 |
Varieties and Dynamics of Visions 102 | 102 |
APPLICATIONS | 131 |
Visions of Equality 133 | 133 |
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