Ignorance and Liberty

by Leonore Davidoff and Lorenzo Infantino

Those with a belief in open society base the demand for liberty on the recognition of human ignorance; we need to be free because we are ignorant and fallible. Free social cooperation permits us to mobilize our knowledge and develop methods of discovery through which we can explore the unknown and continually correct our errors. To assent to free cooperation is to accept critical discussion, democracy and the market and in this way we are able to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415285739
• ISBN13: 9780415285735
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.7"