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"In the unconstrained vision, human nature is not fixed but is capable of being changed by social institutions and social policies. If human beings are capable of improvement, even of perfection, then the question of how to design the best society, with the best social institutions, is a much more open-ended question than if human nature is treated as a given constraint."

— Sowell, Thomas event 1987

From A Conflict of Visions

Context: From *A Conflict of Visions* (1987). The unconstrained vision assumes human nature is malleable, that education, institutions, and enlightened policy can reshape human behaviour toward rational and moral ends.

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