01:790:376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Forgotten Man, William Graham Sumner, American Sociological Association
26 Apr 2018
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Capital, 5: the question of labor and capital is one of material prosperity and equality [and] it reacts upon all other human interests intellectual, moral, physical, and religious. None of them can flourish among a people burdened by material want. (25) Sumner wants to ask: whether there is any class which has the right to formulate demands on society . That is, on other classes then the question which remains is, what ought. Notion of spiritual dimensions of economic issues but : observation of the world around us will show that no one (from the tramp to the. President, the pope, or the czar) can do whatever he wants (25: sumner insists that, liberty is not a metaphysical or sentimental thing at all. It is plainly impossible that we should all attain to equality on the level of the best of us the human race has by no means marched on in a solid and even phalanx.
