Flight from Fallibility How Theory Triumphed over Experience in the West

Name: Flight from Fallibility How Theory Triumphed over Experience in the West
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ISBN: 9780275973582

ISBN-10: 0275973581

ISBN-13: 9780275973582

Edition: 2002

Authors: Henry Perkinson

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Perkinson provides an original historical interpretation that shows how our intellectual, political, economic, and social institutions emerged out of and are based upon the acceptance of human fallibility. However, ever since Plato, theorists have tried to flee from human fallibility in futile quests for certain knowledge, for legitimate government, for a just economy, and for a morality with a rational foundation. These theorists ignore the fact that people in the West, by accepting their fallibility and relying on their experience, have actually constructed critical intellectual institutions that advance knowledge without justification, critical political institutions that lack legitimacy…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 10/30/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Preface



Knowledge Without Justification



Government Without Legitimacy



Economics Without Self-Interest



Morality Without a Foundation



Conclusion: Flight from Fallibility


Selected Bibliography


Index