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Thomas Sowell
(
; born June 30, 1930) is an American
economist
and
social theorist
. He is a Senior
Fellow
at the
Hoover Institution
,
Stanford University
.
[6]
Sowell worked at
Cornell University
and
University of California, Los Angeles
. He has also worked for
think tanks
such as the
Urban Institute
.
Since 1980, he has worked at the
Hoover Institution
at
Stanford University
. He writes from a
libertarian conservative
perspective. He is a
National Humanities Medal
recipient for innovative scholarship which incorporated history, economics and political science.
- ↑
Pinker, Steven
(2002),
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
, New York:
Penguin Books
, pp. 286?296,
The most sweeping attempt to survey the underlying dimension is Thomas Sowell's
A Conflict of Visions
... Sowell calls [the two 'visions' of the nature of human beings] the Constrained Vision and the Unconstrained Vision; I will refer to them as the Tragic Vision...and the Utopian Vision... My own view is that the new sciences of human nature really do vindicate some version of the Tragic Vision and undermine the Utopian outlook...
- ↑
Phaneuf, Emile (December 5, 2013).
"Sowell's Visions"
.
The Freeman
. Archived from
the original
on February 27, 2014
. Retrieved
November 14,
2014
.
- ↑
Sailer, Steve (2002-10-30).
"Q&A with Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate"
.
United Press International
. Archived from the original on 2019-09-26
. Retrieved
2013-09-30
.
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- ↑
Jenkins, Holman W.
(June 29, 2012).
"The Weekend Interview with Jonathan Haidt: He Knows Why We Fight"
.
The Wall Street Journal
. Retrieved
March 5,
2017
.
...as a moral psychologist, I had to say the
constrained vision
[of human nature] is correct.
- ↑
Haidt, Jonathan
(2012),
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
, New York:
Vintage Books
, pp. 338?340,
Based on my own research, I had no choice but to agree with these conservative claims. As I continued to read the writings of conservative intellectuals from
Edmund Burke
in the eighteenth century through
Friedrich Hayek
and Thomas Sowell in the twentieth, I began to see that they had attained a crucial insight into the sociology of morality that I had never encountered before. They understood the importance of what I'll call
moral capital
... If you believe that people are inherently good, and that they flourish when constraints and divisions are removed, then yes, [simply linking people together into healthy, trusting relationships] may be sufficient [to improve the ethical profile of the group to achieve a moral vision for the group]. But conservatives generally take a very different view of human nature. They believe that people need external structures or constraints in order to behave well, cooperate, and thrive. These external constraints include laws, institutions, customs, traditions, nations, and religions. People who hold this '
constrained view
'...
- ↑
"Thomas Sowell Articles ? Political Columnist & Commentator"
.
townhall.com
.