Perkinson provides an original historical interpretation that
shows how our intellectual, political, economic, and social
institutions emerged out of and are based upon the acceptance of
human fallibility. However, ever since Plato, theorists have tried
to flee from human fallibility in futile quests for certain
knowledge, for legitimate government, for a just economy, and for a
morality with a rational foundation.
These theorists ignore the fact that people in the West, by
accepting their fallibility and relying on their experience, have
actually constructed critical intellectual institutions that
advance knowledge without justification, critical political
institutions that lack legitimacy but create stable polities,
critical economic institutions that promote wealth that is not
based on the pursuit of self-interest, and critical social
institutions that establish morality that does not have a rational
foundation. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the
triumph of theory over experience threatened to destroy those
critical institutions. A provocative analysis that will be of
interest to scholars, students, and researchers involved with world
civilization and sociopolitical theory.
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