The legendary financier-and founder of the Open Society Institute-offers crucial insight into the real meaning of freedom, and how societies can best promote it
After reflecting on his support of a losing Democrat for president, George Soros steps back to revisit his views on why George Bush's policies around the world fall short in the arenas most important to Soros: democracy, human rights and open society. As a survivor of the Holocaust and a life-long proponent of free expression, Soros understands the meaning of freedom. And yet his differences with George Bush, another proponent of freedom, are profound.
In this powerful essay Soros spells out his views and how they differ from the president's. He reflects on why the Democrats may have lost the high ground on these values issues and how they might reclaim it. As he has in his recent books, On Globalization and The Bubble of American Supremacy, Soros uses facts, anecdotes, personal experience and philosophy to illuminate a major topic in a way that both enlightens and inspires.
许多人都梦想使世界变得更美好,但是和大多数人相比,索罗斯说自己是幸运的,因为他能比他们更好地实现这个梦想。作为对世界金融市场具有重要影响力的人物,索罗斯试图通过自己的力量改变世界。
索罗斯被认为是“打垮英格兰银行的人”,也被指责为“1997年亚洲金融危机的始作俑者”。他是一个攫取巨额财富的金融大鳄,也是一个声名卓著的慈善家和社会活动家。自1979年以来,索罗斯成了一名活跃的慈善家,开始帮助黑人学生进入种族隔离下南非的开普敦大学就读。他成立了一个遍布全球50多个国家的慈善网络组织,致力于倡导民主和开放社会的价值观。该基金组织网络每年的支出约为4.5亿美元。
评:这本书自己最大的收获就是反身性这个概念。人们把研究自然规律的方法用于研究人类的社会行为,却不知二者有明显的区别。自然规律的研究之所以能够找到真理是因为现实与真理独立存在,自然规律不以人类的意志为转移。但是人类是社会行为的一部分,人类研究社会行为的举动本...
评分首尾章节阐述了索罗斯的哲学框架,以及基于此框架的社会理想(开放社会)和投资理念。这些值得读2遍以上。 其他中间章节的对全球经济,政治博弈等,我觉得就是一般大报社的记者水平,太虚,或者篇幅所限,无法深入,随便看看。 索罗斯认为经济学属于社会科学,而现在很多研究认...
评分没想到索罗斯竟然是波普尔的学生,而且还很欣赏波普尔;没想到索罗斯不仅仅是个精明的商人,还是个思想者;没想到索罗斯不仅仅有思想,还非常关心整个人类的共同利益。 索罗斯批评古典的狭隘视野和思想上的错误。他提到,古典思想在尝试给世界寻找一种确定性,一种准确的理论描...
评分开放社会:相对静态的,产生固定的统治阶级的社会被认为是封闭社会;而由公民积极参与的,以不断自我改正错误的社会是开放社会的核心想法。 不写专门传记的缘由: 思维方式抽象,除非具体事件提供人生经验或见解,否则=一无是处:不留痕迹 更愿意解释他的人生理念框架 人类对...
评分If you have books by Soros, you don’t need this one, it's still about the same concept of "reflexivity"
评分If you have books by Soros, you don’t need this one, it's still about the same concept of "reflexivity"
评分If you have books by Soros, you don’t need this one, it's still about the same concept of "reflexivity"
评分If you have books by Soros, you don’t need this one, it's still about the same concept of "reflexivity"
评分If you have books by Soros, you don’t need this one, it's still about the same concept of "reflexivity"
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