The Needs of StrangersThis thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met." Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them-from Augustine to Bosch, from Rousseau to Simone Weil. Incisive and moving, The Needs of Strangers returns philosophy to its proper place, as a guide to the art of being human. |
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... never gets asked is whether they might need something more than the means of mere survival. There are good reasons for this silence. It is difficult enough to define human need in terms of basic necessities. These are, after all ...
... never gets asked is whether they might need something more than the means of mere survival. There are good reasons for this silence. It is difficult enough to define human need in terms of basic necessities. These are, after all ...
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... never deliver both freedom of action and certainty of will. In the City of Men, the citizen is free to choose among his desires, but he can never be certain that he has chosen what he needs. Recovering this ancient language of sin helps ...
... never deliver both freedom of action and certainty of will. In the City of Men, the citizen is free to choose among his desires, but he can never be certain that he has chosen what he needs. Recovering this ancient language of sin helps ...
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