Thomas Sowell
Economist and social theorist, born in 1930, whose A Conflict of Visions (1987) traced political disagreement to two visions of human nature, the constrained and the unconstrained.
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Their wordsVisions are the foundations on which theories are built.
↗A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Quill, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsA vision is our sense of how the world works.
↗A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Quill, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsVisions are like maps that guide us through a tangle of bewildering complexities.
↗A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Quill, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsOne of the curious things about political opinions is how often the same people line up on opposite sides of different issues.
↗A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Quill, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsVisions set the agenda for both thought and action.
↗A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Quill, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsThe constrained vision is a tragic vision of the human condition.
↗A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Quill, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book