A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Politics has numerous causes of contention, but the fights that last for generations or centuries follow a strikingly regular pattern. Thomas Sowell examines this tendency in this famous study. 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 makes a compelling case that ethical and policy disagreements revolve from the discrepancy between both perspectives.
