Autonomy and its limits in ‘the good society’

Abstract In arguably his two major works, published more than a century ago, the social psychologist and co-founder of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Graham Wallas, argued first against utilitarian intellectualism for it being excessively reductionist in the face of complex human psychology, but then for a form of intellectualism to instil in people the reasoning abilities required for a large industrialised Great Society to also become a ‘Good Society’. In this essa