Abstract

In this study, the contributors maintain that forcefully-expressed ideas have in fact wrought huge changes in the world - sometimes of great good, sometimes of overwhelming evil. The theme of these essays is that the hope of the next century of human history hangs on our ability to recapture our faith in the social power of ideas. This book is a collection of papers presented at the 11th International Social Philosophy Conference, held in Helsinki, in the summer of 1993.