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"The constrained vision sees the evils of the world as deriving from the limited and biased nature of man himself — and therefore sees the social challenge as being to make the best of the possibilities which exist within that constraint, rather than to try to change human nature."

— Sowell, Thomas event 1987

From A Conflict of Visions

Context: From *A Conflict of Visions* (1987). Sowell's formulation of the constrained vision — the assumption that human nature is fixed, self-interested, and morally limited, and that institutions must work with this reality rather than against it.

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