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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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The landmark explanation of the competing visions of human nature that lie at the heart of our political conflicts

"A classic of a very special kind...Reading it is like looking up at the night sky and discovering a new constellation." --Christian Science Monitor

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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  • Title A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
  • Author Thomas Sowell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Revised
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, NY
  • Publication date 2007-06-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780465002054 / 0465002056
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.33 x 0.94 in (20.42 x 13.54 x 2.39 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Ideology, Social values
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006101246
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.372

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Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. For more than half a century, his writings have appeared in both popular and scholarly publications, on both sides of the Atlantic, and his books have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. After a career as an economist in the government, academia and the corporate world, he has since 1980 been a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, devoting his efforts to research and writing, on subjects ranging from the history and influence of intellectuals to education and social policies in countries around the world.

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