A View from Above
By: John Sullivan |
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Edition: Adobe Ebook, 397K 166 Pages
Publication Date: October 10, 2006
Other Editions: Paperback |
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A View from Above provocatively argues that competition
for power leads totalitarian man inexorably toward a
libertarian order. The relationships examined between
human nature, power and ideology are a synthesis of
Hobbes, Mandeville, and Nietzsche, but the conclusions
drawn depart from them and are startlingly original.
The feature of man that premises A View from Above is
egocentrism. Defining the ego as a need for social
recognition, selfishness takes the form of both success
and charity, dynamically creating the nexus of
civilization.
While aggressively challenging man’s opinion of himself,
A View from Above suggests that civil institutions are
not the product of enlightened thought, but of
appeasement to rising power.
Societies are the result of the balance of power, and as
human competition intensifies, power is won by
increasing portions of it, the unplanned wisdom being
that it is limited to the preservation of order, and
with it the species.
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