A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

By:

Sowell, Thomas

Material type: Text

TextBasic Books 20070605ISBN:

9780465002054
0465002056

DDC classification:

303.372

Summary: In this classic work, Thomas Sowell describes the two competing visions that shape debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power. "A Conflict of Visions" offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction	Adult Non-Fiction	303.372 SOW	Ordered	pap ed.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

In this classic work, Thomas Sowell describes the two competing visions that shape debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power. "A Conflict of Visions" offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.