Product Details
ISBN: 9780465002054
Category: Political Science & Theory
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2007-05-15
Publisher: Basic Books
Country of origin: USA
Edition: New ed of rev ed
Pages: 352
Pagination: 352 pages
Dimensions (mm): 204 x 135 x 24
Weight: 300g
A Conflict Of Visions: Idealogical Origins Of Political Struggles
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.