Change in British Society
Dr A. H. Halsey. Professor of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Oxford, begins his series of six talks. 1:To Know Ourselves
' The ends are the ideals which dominate modern social thought: they are Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. They are courts of appeal before which policy and practice appear as plaintiffs or defendants in an evolving trial of promise and performance. As society develops, it is through various combinations of these three ideals that scholars abstractly, and ordinary people concretely, assess the quality of that development. What is more clearly evident from the British experience is an unresolved problem of fraternity or basis for social order beneath the class of egalitarian and libertarian argument.' (Rptd: next Sunday Radio 3)
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