索维尔：社会正义谬误 Social Justice Fallacies

基本信息

Format:Hardback 224 pages

Publisher:Basic Books

Imprint:Basic Books

ISBN:9781541603929

Published:10 Oct 2023

Dimensions:160 x 243 x 24 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

追求社会正义是我们这个时代的一场强大的运动，出于许多不同的原因，它吸引着许多不同的人。 但使用相同词语的人并不总是表达相同的含义。 澄清这些含义是找出我们同意和不同意的内容的初步。 从这里开始，问题主要在于事实是什么。 社会正义谬误揭示了有多少被认为是真实的事情根本无法经得起记录的事实，而这些事实往往与人们普遍认为的相反。

无论社会正义愿景多么有吸引力，关键问题是社会正义议程是否能让我们实现这一愿景。 历史表明，社会正义议程常常走向相反的方向，有时会带来灾难性的后果。

除了简单的错误之外，还涉及更多的事情。 所有人都会犯错，社会正义倡导者不一定比其他人犯更多的错误。 但对自己的使命完全确定的十字军战士往往不会被障碍、证据甚至致命的危险所吓倒。 这就是当今西方世界的大部分地区。 问题是我们是否会继续不顾一切地走下去，直到没有回头路。

The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same meanings. Clarifying those meanings is the first step toward finding out what we agree on and disagree on. From there, it is largely a question of what the facts are. Social Justice Fallacies reveals how many things that are thought to be true simply cannot stand up to documented facts, which are often the opposite of what is widely believed.

However attractive the social justice vision, the crucial question is whether the social justice agenda will get us to the fulfillment of that vision. History shows that the social justice agenda has often led in the opposite direction, sometimes with serious consequences. 

More things are involved besides simply mistakes. All human beings are fallible, and social justice advocates may not necessarily make any more mistakes than others. But crusaders with an utter certainty about their mission are often undeterred by obstacles, evidence or even fatal dangers. That is where much of the Western world is today. The question is whether we will continue on heedlessly, past the point of no return.

作者简介

托马斯·索维尔是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。 半个多世纪以来，他的作品出现在大西洋两岸的流行和学术出版物上，他的书籍已被翻译成十几种外语。 在政府、学术界和企业界担任经济学家之后，他自 1980 年起成为胡佛研究所的常驻学者，致力于研究和写作，主题涵盖知识分子的历史和影响到教育等。 以及世界各国的社会政策。

Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. For more than half a century, his writings have appeared in both popular and scholarly publications, on both sides of the Atlantic, and his books have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. After a career as an economist in the government, academia and the corporate world, he has since 1980 been a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, devoting his efforts to research and writing, on subjects ranging from the history and influence of intellectuals to education and social policies in countries around the world.