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Author
Title
The quest for cosmic justice / Thomas Sowell.
Published
New York : Free Press, [1999]
Copyright
©1999
Call Number
HM671 .S68 1999
ISBN
0684864622 (alk. paper)
9780684864624 (alk. paper)
9780684864624 (alk. paper)
Description
ix, 214 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)41439587
Summary
"This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom - amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Sowell, Thomas, 1930- Quest for cosmic justice. New York : Free Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607202280
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Table of Contents
Preface
I
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
1
II
The Mirage of Equality
49
III
The Tyranny of Visions
97
IV
The Quiet Repeal of the American Revolution
143
Notes
191
Index
207