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Table of Contents
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Title Page
Dedication
Praise
Preface to the 2006 Edition
Preface to the 1987 Edition
PART I: - PATTERNS
Chapter 1 - The Role of Visions
Chapter 2 - Constrained and Unconstrained Visions
THE NATURE OF MAN
TRADE-OFFS VERSUS SOLUTIONS
SOCIAL MORALITY AND SOCIAL CAUSATION
SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 3 - Visions of Knowledge and Reason
THE MOBILIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE
ARTICULATED VERSUS SYSTEMIC RATIONALITY
SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 4 - Visions of Social Processes
ORDER AND DESIGN
PROCESS COSTS
SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 5 - Varieties and Dynamics of Visions
OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS
HYBRID VISIONS
SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS
PART II: - APPLICATIONS
Chapter 6 - Visions of Equality
CAUSATION
KINDS OF EQUALITIES AND INEQUALITIES
SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 7 - Visions of Power
FORCE AND VIOLENCE
THE LOCUS OF DISCRETION
SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 8 - Visions of Justice
LEGAL JUSTICE
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
SOCIAL JUSTICE
SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 9 - Visions, Values, and Paradigms
PARADIGMS AND EVIDENCE
VISIONS AND VALUES
VISIONS AND INTERESTS
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright Page
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To my wife Mary, with love
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Bertrand Russell
Preface to the 2006 Edition
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his is a revised edition of my own favorite among the books I have written—mainly because it addresses a fundamental question that seldom gets the attention it deserves: What are the underlying assumptions behind the very different ideological visions of the world being contested in modern times? The purpose here will not be to determine which of these visions is more valid but rather to reveal the inherent logic behind each of these sets of views and the ramifications of their assumptions which lead not only to different conclusions on particular issues but also to wholly different meanings to such fundamental words as “justice,” “equality,” and “power.” Although this is in one sense a book about the history of ideas, it is also very much about our own times, for this conflict of visions is as sharply contested today as it has been over the past two centuries.
Two other books of mine do seek to examine the validity of different visions—The Vision of the Anointed
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