Footnotes
1.
Isaiah
Berlin; ÒThe Purpose of PhilosophyÓ; The Power of Ideas; Princeton University
Press; Princeton, NJ; 2002; p. 35.
2.
If
disagreements among people are to be resolved peacefully, the routes are either social authority, reason or a combination of
both.
Quoting
a footnote from a previous essay, ÒAutomation and Capitalism in the 21st
CenturyÓ:
ÒThe
ability to use reason widely and with some consistency distinguishes modern
societies from more traditional ones. Lynch (2012, p. 2) writes, ÔThe thought that everything is arbitrary (or predefined)
undermines a key principle of a civil society, that we owe our fellow citizens
explanations of what we do. Civil societies are not necessarily polite or
homogeneous, but they are societies that value reason-giving,
inquiry, questioning, and hashing out oneÕs differences with others. In so
doing, they take strenuously the idea that there are better or worse ways of
doingÉthings. If you give up on the idea that there are standards of this sort,
you give up on the idea that giving reasons has any real point. Deliberation
becomes a game played for the joy of manipulation and the increase of power.
Skepticism about reason undermines our commitment to civil societyÉÕÓ
The
use of reason in problem solving also requires the social capital of trust, so
people can cooperate.
3.
Yuval
Levin; ÒThe Great DebateÓ; Basic Books; New York; 2014; p. 122.
4.
Ibid,
p. 12.
5.
Thomas
Ertman; ÒBirth of the LeviathanÓ; Cambridge
University Press; Cambridge; 1997; p.p. 208, 158.
6.
David
Fisher; ÒAlbionÕs SeedÓ; Oxford University Press; Oxford; 1991; p. 826.
7.
Wikipedia; Common Sense (pamphlet).
8.
Levin,
p. 64.
9.
https://thomaspaine.org/was-paine-present-at-the-constitutional-convention-in-1787.html
10. Levin, p. 4.
11. Edmund Burke; ÒReflections on the Revolution
in FranceÓ; Hackett Publishing Company; Indianapolis, Indiana; 1987; p. 19.
12. Levin, p. 133. He is a fair and clear
writer.
13. Industrialization has been an economic
force affecting societies since the beginning of the 19th century.
The question facing developed societies is what to do once this major factor in
mass wealth creation has departed.
14. Howard Gardner; Ò5 Minds for the FutureÓ;
Harvard Business School Publishing; Boston; 2008; p.p. 1, 3.