Abstract
Abstract To an extent, we live with a modern achievement described by the simultaneous presence of widespread individual liberty, economic prosperity and both domestic and international order. This achievement is, however, fragile in the extreme, and its fragility must be recognised. It is vulnerable to destruction and erosion, both from deliberately fostered attacks and from unattended historical evolutionary drift. This vulnerability increases as the philosophical underpinnings of the achievement come to be increasingly forgotten, neglected and misunderstood. In summary, this review is a plea for simultaneous recognition both of the potential for deliberately organised change in institutional order and of the limits that history, human nature, science, technology and resource capacity impose on efforts to move toward the betterment of humankind.
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