Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: MrB
I will have to get this book.

I've read his earlier book Vision of the Anointed which I suppose addresses much the same topic.

But my point remains that you can still believe innate human nature is good and be a conservative or that innate human nature is evil and be a liberal.

What side of the fence you fall on in the nature/nurture argument has far less to do with it than your proposed solutions.

55 posted on 06/09/2010 8:32:16 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]


To: Vigilanteman

Vision of the Anointed was Sowell’s polemic.

In “Conflict”, he’s more balanced, examining what he calls the “unconstrained vision” vs the constrained or tragic vision of mankind. It was really amazing how he wrote it with no bias toward one or the other as “right”.

However, he DOES assert that your solutions will invariably flow from these base assumptions.


68 posted on 06/09/2010 9:27:00 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson