Tuesday 16 December 2014

The search for progress

An excellent paragraph from http://ofint2.blogspot.co.uk:

"...the egalitarian mania of the twentieth century, striving to find some sense of community with which to replace what went missing as the West abandoned Christianity, has impoverished psychology by its insistence on [the] denial of psychological realities and key human differences. As intellectuals have known since Adam Smith, advanced civilization requires division of labour. Thus we need basic human differences in drives and abilities. A proper search for ‘community’ must accept differences and use them — not deny them or, more generally, the role of biology in personality and society."

Not just 'a proper search for community', either, but 'a proper search for progress'.


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