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	A Conlict of Visions
		The constrained vision was not synonymous with (or camouflage for) acceptance of the status quo.
		Visions are inherently in conflict, quite aside form the misunderstandings, hostilities, or intransigence generated in the course of polemics.
		While visions conflict, and arouse strong emotions in the process, merely "winning" cannot be the ultimate goal of either the constrained or the unconstrained vision, however much that goals may preoccupy practical politicians.
	homepage.eircom.net /~odyssey/Politics/Sowell/Conflict_Visions.html (4452 words)

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		In the constrained vision, each individual makes choices about the small fraction of social questions in which he or she is immediately involved - roughly speaking, each individual makes decisions about his or her own person and own property, but not about anyone else's.
		The defining characteristics of the constrained vision are that it leaves each individual control over his own person and property, and individuals judge the best way to use their resources largely by inarticulate means such as traditions and prices.
		In consequence, the constrained vision believes that the only solution to the problem of war is a strong national defense to deter aggressors and allow one's own nation to negotiate from a position of strength; the unconstrained vision, in contrast, wants to negotiate, move towards general disarmament, and universally establish political systems conducive to peace.
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/bcaplan/Sowell (3161 words)

	Thomas Sowell
		Sowell's opening chapter tries to answer the question of why the same people tend to be political adversaries in issue after issue, when the issues vary enormously in subject matter, and sometimes hardly seem connected to one another at all.
		The root of this, he says, are the "visions", or the intuitive feelings, that people have about human nature; different visions imply radically different consequences for how they think about everything from war to justice.
		The rest of the book describes two basic visions, the "unconstrained" and "unconstrained" visions, which are thought to capture opposite ends of a continuum of political thought on which one can place many contemporary Westerners, in addition to their intellectual ancestors of the past few centuries.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thomas_Sowell.html (164 words)

	CONFLICT PREVENTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We can see a number of internal conflicts, civil wars and regional conflicts, often due to ethnic or religious tension, often risking to spreading to other countries.
		Values and visions have to be implemented through solid systems, democratic institutions and effective instruments.
		"Conflict prevention" is a relatively new term, but the concept has always been at the heart of the United Nations.
	www.un.int /sweden/pages/nationalstatemen/st061303.htm (1957 words)

	[Islam-Online- Politics]
		The American premise, unspoken and simply assumed, was that conflict is bad, whereas the premise of the Communist leaders, equally unspoken in their communication with Americans, was that dialectical conflict is inherently good, because without it there can be no progress toward their higher goal.
		Visions are very subjective, but well-constructed theories have clear implications, and facts can test and measure their objective validity." He emphasizes that "a vision is not a dream, a hope, a prophecy, or a moral imperative.
		This constrained vision of human nature produced a movement known as constitutionalism, which was designed to produce order, justice, and liberty by constraining human action.
	www.islamonline.net /iol-english/qadaya/qpolitic-15/qpolitic3.asp (1692 words)

	visions - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Example: "He had a vision of his own death"
		Example: "He had a vision of the Virgin Mary"
		Phrases that include visions: a conflict of visions, dangerous visions, dark visions, eighteen visions, last dangerous visions, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=visions (180 words)

	Merck Newsroom: Executive Speeches
		We see a conflict of visions over the role of intellectual property, or the role of the private sector in health.
		But those with a conflicting vision argued just as vehemently that patents are obstacles to access and that IP should not stand in the way of patients' rights to care and treatment.
		This policy of active engagement is how to address the conflict of visions I spoke about earlier, and how to move toward the goal shared by all who are involved in the global health care debate: tangible progress in the fight against suffering and disease.
	www.merck.com /newsroom/executive_speeches/100202.html (2452 words)

	A Conflict of Visions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the unconstrained vision, man's moral nature is, according to William Godwin (1756-1836), fundamentally "generous and magnanimous." Man's intellectual capacity, too, is limited but "indefinite." In this view, Sowell points out, "knowledge is synonymous with articulated rationality," the kind of timeless armchair knowledge of humanist intellectuals.
		There are also hybrid visions such as Marxism, which sees man as progressing from heavily constrained to unconstrained economic systems as the dialectic of history unfolds.
		But instead of mangling his op-ponents, Sowell respects the complexities of their arguments and visions (as well as those with which he is largely in agreement) and treats them without rancor.
	www.libertyhaven.com /thinkers/thomassowell/conflictvisions.html (847 words)

	EPIC Online\| Responsible Business Conduct, Organizational Culture and Managing Organizational Conflict
		Conflict arises when there are differing visions of where the organization should go and how it should go there.
		Conflict also arises when there are differing understandings of where the organization is and how it got there.
		So, approaches to conflict resolution should be more in the nature of mediation, in which the conflict is resolved by the parties with whatever facilitation may be appropriate, than arbitration or litigation.
	www.ethicaledge.com /quest_5.html (1563 words)

	Prof. Gregg Jackson's Course Resources
		In his "A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles," Thomas Sowell argues that people vary in their visions of the nature of human beings, social institutions, and social progress, and that these visions influence their assumptions and perceptions about how best to achieve a good society.
		At one extreme, there is a "constrained visions" that believes that humans and their social institutions are inherently flawed and driven by self interest.
		That vision supports the ideological perspective that the greatest good for the largest portion of the people is achieved by social processes that maximize free exchanges among people.
	www.gwu.edu /~gjackson/271_const.htm (411 words)

	Amazon.com: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles: Books: Thomas Sowell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The different vision among these two big groups is considered as the main resources of the conflict of logical consistency that Sowell identified in his preface that "we sacrifice for our visions and sometimes, if need be, face ruin rather than betray them".
		He also added that "Visions are very subjective, but well-constructed theories have clear implications, and facts can test and measure their objective validity" in the topic of the role of visions.
		Special attention to visions of equality, visions of justice which are central to the ideological conflicts of the age.
	www.amazon.com /Conflict-Visions-Ideological-Political-Struggles/dp/0465081428 (3894 words)

	Oregon Magazine
		Where visions conflict, whole societies may be torn apart.
		The American colonies fought a conventional war and successfully threw off British control, establishing a new nation based on a Constitution that was the fullest formal expression ever devised of the ancient vision of man as the innately imperfect, selfish author of his own behavior.
		The intellectuals, however, consider failure, whether mild or deadly, merely the opportunity for further study, fine-tuning their theories, altering their methods of getting complaince from 'the masses', ever-renewing their efforts toward releasing the perfection they believe to be basic to man's nature.
	oregonmag.com /Whitcomb203.htm (1278 words)

	A Conflict of Visions - Ideological Origins of Political Struggles - By Thomas Sowell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It should be no surprise, therefore, that adherents of the unconstrained vision deem it acceptable to espouse redistribution of land and wealth to the poor, affirmative action, judicial activism, and direct government involvement in social issues.
		Whereas adherents of the unconstrained vision generally measure such concepts in terms of results, those adhering to the constrained vision tend to measure such concepts by whether the underlying processes are fair - regardless of the individual end results.
		A Conflict of Visions is very well written, and employs the same razor-sharp logic and exceptional clarity characteristic of Sowell's other works.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1065458/posts (2409 words)

	THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHECHNYA
		But, the conflict is not over: the rebels led by Dzokhar Dudayev have made no secret of their intention to launch a guerrilla campaign from the Caucasus mountains.
		Russia: During the first stage of the conflict, there was strong opposition to Yeltsin's policy in the Soviet Government and in the Russian parliament.
		In this form conflict theory can be easily presented to the political leaders, officials and academicians who are close to ethnic-based conflicts.
	www.colorado.edu /conflict/full_text_search/PeaceCase/95-5.htm (7800 words)

	Theoretically Speaking - Morton Kaplan
		In A Conflict of Visions Sowell turns back to what he regards as his true métier, one he has pursued for thirty years - the history of ideas.
		He argues that ideas tend to fall into constellations or visions of how the world works and what is appropriate in such worlds.
		He contends that the visions, which concern knowledge, reason, and social processes, apply to concepts of equality, power and justice.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1987/august/Sa11856.htm (243 words)

	The Constrained and Unconstrained Visions- by Bob Wallace - Price of Liberty
		The unconstrained vision is "leftism," which, according to Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in Leftism Revisited, got its start during the French Revolution (and he claims, with damning evidence, one of its founders was, of all people, the Marquis de Sade).
		Those who believe in the unconstrained vision, on the other hand, support a morally superior "intellectual elite" which alone has the ability (and therefore the responsibility) to guide the masses and remake society according to their vision.
		If I had to describe the left (those who believe in the unconstrained vision) in three phrases, it would be the "lust to destroy," the "lust for power," and the "lust for attention." Those three traits, in the West, are the main ones of Satan, who wanted to be God.
	www.thepriceofliberty.org /04/11/26/wallace.htm (1383 words)

	War of Visions
		The civil war that has intermittently raged in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is, according to Francis Deng, a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country.
		War of Visions aims at shedding light on the anomalies of the identity conflict.
		The competing models in the Sudan are the Arab-Islamic mold of the North, representing two-thirds of the country in territory and population, and the remaining Southern third, which is indigenously African in race, ethnicity, culture, and religion, with an educated Christianized elite.
	www.brook.edu /press/books/warofvis.htm (482 words)

	TIME.com: Upside -- Mar. 16, 1987 -- Page 1
		A vision, as Sowell uses the term, is not some mystical moment of perception, "not a dream, a hope, a prophecy, or a moral imperative," but rather what another scholar has called a "pre-analytic cognitive act." It is an almost instinctive sense of what the human race is like and how it functions.
		"Visions," says Sowell, "are the foundations on which theories are built." The constrained vision imagines people basing all their acts on self- interest and having only a very limited ability to affect their surroundings; the unconstrained vision sees people being guided by reason and always able to improve things.
		The constrained vision, as expressed by Adam Smith or Alexander Hamilton, seeks trade-offs; the unconstrained vision, as in John Stuart Mill or Thomas Jefferson, seeks solutions.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,963796,00.html (688 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
		Description: Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent 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.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=52180207&srchTerms=0465081428&mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN (321 words)

	Ephilosopher :: Political Philosophy Forum :: A Conflict of Visions? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of his most contraversial theories is that political struggle in western society is a struggle between a 'constrained' and 'unconstrained' visions of human nature.
		Many paint him as more simplistic, as if he thinks people simply fall into one camp or another, but he admits early on in his book A CONFLICT OF VISIONS that few people fall sharply in one or another camp, but that it is all a matter of degree.
		A person who TENDS towards the unconstrained vision will be more liberal and generally oppose politically those who TEND towards the constrained vision of human nature.
	www.ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-3282.html (2485 words)

	Three Books By Thomas Sowell - Margaret Snyder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By “vision”, Sowell means the collection of assumptions about human nature that underlie the way we interpret events and predict the consequences of real or hypothetical actions and policies.
		In the constrained vision (that of “the benighted”) justice means consistently applying the laws according to their intended meaning.
		In the unconstrained vision (that of “the anointed”), justice means ever striving toward perfection in the sense that we should take into account everyone’s special circumstances and try to “level the playing field” to achieve “cosmic justice”.
	americandaily.com /article/2777 (1362 words)

	The American Enterprise: Thomas Sowell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He considers his most important work to be A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, which examines the ideas that lie behind the main political controversies of the past two centuries.
		TAE: In A Conflict of Visions, you wrote, "the concept of 'nation building' is a fundamental misconception.
		That's a vision that pervades a large section of the intelligentsia.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.18140/article_detail.asp (4014 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 87035955 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or for centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern.
		The analysis of this pattern is the purpose of A Conflict of Visions.
		Thomas Sowell describes A Conflict of Visions as "the culmination of thirty years of work in the history of ideas"--a field in which he established his professional reputation years before writing any of his well-known books on ethnicity and other social issues.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hc044/87035955.html (236 words)

	AFF's Brainwash :: Gene Healy :: This Week's Book: A Conflict of Visions
		Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions was my self-assigned reading for this week.
		The Constrained Vision stresses trade-offs; it posits, as the LP's David Bergland used to say, that "utopia is not an option." The Unconstrained Vision, in its purest forms holds that utopia is so an option, given enlightened leadership.
		But it does seem to be a bit phoney to imagine that the libertarian world would not involve any coercion and that also people's voluntary choices would not lead to some unpleasant, ugly, and downright immoral outcomes that even the most staunch libertarian would be a bit ashamed to defend.
	www.affbrainwash.com /genehealy/archives/020179.php (2700 words)

	Briefing - Election Day Concerns - October 29, 2004
		All this comes from a "conflict of visions," according to John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, author of the new book Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.
		Fund argues that there are two competing visions: the constrained view, and the unconstrained view.
		This "conflict of visions" has been ongoing for a long time.
	www.aim.org /briefing/2105_0_5_0_C (715 words)

	ATR: Press Releases: State of Union: President Bush v. Gov. Locke
		Conflict of Visions: State of the Union sees a tax-cutting President rebuked by a governor whose state maintains the highest cost of government in America.
		And tonight's State of the Union address by President Bush - and Democratic response by Gov. Gary Locke (Wash.) - will bring to that conflict of visions front and center in America's political debate.
		"What we have in tonight's State of the Union and Democrat response is a conflict of visions - the likes of which has not been seen since the days of Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill," said taxpayer advocate Grover Norquist, who heads ATR in Washington.
	www.atr.org /content/html/2003/jan/012803pr.html (424 words)

	European Economic Integration: A Conflict of Visions - Southwest Economy, July/Aug 2005 - FRB Dallas
		Those are the unspoken economic stakes behind the conflict of visions.
		Consider Singapore and the Soviet Union, and the conflict of visions becomes clear.
		If the 25 members of the EU were to agree to integrate along French or German norms, the fact that the federation had achieved further economic integration would not save its economy from sliding into the night.
	www.dallasfed.org /research/swe/2005/swe0504b.html (2033 words)

	ASU News & Information from the Office of Media Relations and Public Information
		This month, as the weather in the Valley begins to heat up, so does the discourse as Arizona State University's Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict brings to the Valley Charles Kimball, TV and radio commentator, best-selling author, government policy advisor, professor of religious studies and ordained Baptist minister.
		The series explores the sources and consequences of religious conflict and strategies for their resolution.
		For more information on the lecture or on the ASU Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, visit the website http://www.asu.edu/csrc or call 480-965-7187.
	www.asu.edu /news/campus/kimball_lecture_031104.htm (705 words)

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