The Rule of Law Soros is convinced that the demand for perfection as reflected in the dogma of political and economic ideologies leads to increasing social dysfunction, breakdown, war and the rise of totalitarian regimes. Like Socrates, he looks to uncertainty and doubt as the source of goodness and wisdom. Where doubt prevails, difference flourishes, experimentation is encouraged, dissent is normal and the rule of law guarantees tolerance. Competition is only one facet of human acitvity, he says. It is not the common good.
Cooperation is equally important.
In pursuit of the open society Soros has poured hundred of millions of dollars into Eastern Europe, focussing primarily on helping locals to set up legal infrastructure as platforms for direct foreign investment and later, portfolios of foreign investment. He funded Solidarity before the collapse of Communism in Poland and its equivalent in Czechoslovakia. But he couldn't pull out because he would be letting down people he wanted to support. The Law Society of New South Wales is the professional association for the solicitors branch of the legal profession in the State of New South Wales, Australia. 170 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia.