A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

Sowell, Thomas

ISBN 10: 1441788026 ISBN 13: 9781441788023

Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB, 2011

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Reseña del editor

Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conlficts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this book, which the author calls a "culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas," Sowell attempts to explain the ideological difference between liberals and conservatives as a disagreement over the moral potential inherent in nature. Those who see that potential as limited prefer to constrain governmental authority, he argues. They feel that reform is difficult and often dangerous, and they put their faith in family, custom, law, and traditional institutions. Conversely, those who have faith in human nature prefer to remove institutional and traditional constraints. Controversies over such diverse issues as criminal justice, income distribution, or war and peace repeatedly show an ideological divide along the lines of these two conflicting visions.

Biografía del autor

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has been published in both academic journals and such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune and writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1441788026
• ISBN 13: 9781441788023
• Einband: CD MP3
• Sprache: Englisch