First published in 1970, this is an analytic discussion of the various ways in which perfectibility has been interpreted. Professor Passmore traces its long history from the Greeks to the 20th century, by way of Christianity, orthodox and heterodox, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, anarchism, utopias, communism, psychoanalysis, and evolutionary theories of man and society. The text explores the history of the idea of perfectibility - manifest in the ideology of perfectibilism -and its consequences, which have invariably been catastrophic for individual liberty and responsibility in...
First published in 1970, this is an analytic discussion of the various ways in which perfectibility has been interpreted. Professor Passmore traces it...
In this vivid and iconoclastic memoir, John Passmore takes us on an unsentimental journey from his childhood in Manly, then half-village, half-resort - seven miles from Sydney, a thousand miles from care - to the hot house environment of the University of Sydney, and on to the realities of his imagined Europe.
In this vivid and iconoclastic memoir, John Passmore takes us on an unsentimental journey from his childhood in Manly, then half-village, half-resort ...
