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- Title
Walter Lippmann: The Impossibilities of Social Planning.
- Authors
JONES, JR., HAROLD B.
- Abstract
The article presents the views of journalist Walter Lippmann regarding the impossibilities of social planning. Lippmann asserts that the limited moral and intellectual capacities of human rulers or leaders could not safely be trusted with unlimited powers of the government. He cites that human ruler have limited understanding of the world because they are also human beings. He adds that the character of the people affects social planning in which the Golden rule of morality must be applied.
- Subjects
LIPPMANN, Walter, 1889-1974; SOCIAL planning; HEADS of state; INTELLECT; POWER (Social sciences); CHARACTER; GOLDEN rule
- Publication
Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, 2011, Vol 61, Issue 8, p32
- ISSN
1559-1638
- Publication type
Article