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• catalog abstract ""David Stove, in On Enlightenment, attacks the intellectual roots of enlightenment thought, to define the limitations of its successes and the areas of its likely failures. Stove is not insensitive to the many valuable aspects of enlightenment thought. He champions the use of reason and rationality, and recognizes the falsity of religious claims as well as the importance of individual liberty. What he rejects is the enlightenment's uncritical optimism regarding social progress and its willingness to embrace revolutionary change." "He advocates a conservative "go slow" approach to change, pointing out that today's social structures are so large and complex that any widespread social reform will have innumerable unforeseen consequences. For example, the welfare state may diminish individual initiative. The use of pesticides may increase the food supply while polluting the water supply, the popularizing of university education, may lead to a decline in academic standards. Since government has a virtual monopoly on large-scale change. It follows, in Stove's view, that its powers must be limited in order to prevent large-scale damage, instead, he argues that reforms, when they are to be made at all, must be realistic, local, necessary and never coercive."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12674483.
• catalog contributor b12674484.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""David Stove, in On Enlightenment, attacks the intellectual roots of enlightenment thought, to define the limitations of its successes and the areas of its likely failures. Stove is not insensitive to the many valuable aspects of enlightenment thought. He champions the use of reason and rationality, and recognizes the falsity of religious claims as well as the importance of individual liberty. What he rejects is the enlightenment's uncritical optimism regarding social progress and its willingness to embrace revolutionary change."".
• catalog description ""He advocates a conservative "go slow" approach to change, pointing out that today's social structures are so large and complex that any widespread social reform will have innumerable unforeseen consequences. For example, the welfare state may diminish individual initiative. The use of pesticides may increase the food supply while polluting the water supply, the popularizing of university education, may lead to a decline in academic standards. Since government has a virtual monopoly on large-scale change. It follows, in Stove's view, that its powers must be limited in order to prevent large-scale damage, instead, he argues that reforms, when they are to be made at all, must be realistic, local, necessary and never coercive."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Preface / Roger Kimball -- Introduction: David Stove on Enlightenment / Andrew Irvine -- So You Think You're an Egalitarian? -- Did Babeuf Deserve the Guillotine? -- A Promise Kept by Accident -- The Bateson Fact, or One in a Million -- Why the World is the Way It Is -- The Malthus Check -- Population, Privilege, and Malthus' Retreat -- The Diabolical Place: A Secret of the Enlightenment -- Glimpses of Pioneer Life -- Altruism and Darwinism -- Paralytic Epistemology, or the Soundless Scream -- Reclaiming the Jungle -- The Columbus Argument -- Bombs Away -- Jobs for the Girls -- Righting Wrongs -- Why You should be a Conservative.".
• catalog extent "xxxvii, 185 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0765801361 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers,".
• catalog subject "190 21".
• catalog subject "B802 .S76 2003".
• catalog subject "Enlightenment.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Preface / Roger Kimball -- Introduction: David Stove on Enlightenment / Andrew Irvine -- So You Think You're an Egalitarian? -- Did Babeuf Deserve the Guillotine? -- A Promise Kept by Accident -- The Bateson Fact, or One in a Million -- Why the World is the Way It Is -- The Malthus Check -- Population, Privilege, and Malthus' Retreat -- The Diabolical Place: A Secret of the Enlightenment -- Glimpses of Pioneer Life -- Altruism and Darwinism -- Paralytic Epistemology, or the Soundless Scream -- Reclaiming the Jungle -- The Columbus Argument -- Bombs Away -- Jobs for the Girls -- Righting Wrongs -- Why You should be a Conservative.".
• catalog title "On enlightenment / David Stove ; Andrew Irvine, editor ; with a preface by Roger Kimball.".
• catalog type "text".