Escape from EvilFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world. “A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin “An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light.” —Newsweek “Brilliant and challenging…adds another bit of reason to balance destruction…It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical…of the highest importance.” —Los Angeles Times |
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... driven— but this is only because he started off already obsessed with control and with a hunger for immortality . It is true that primitive man was kinder to nature , that he did not cause the kind of destructive- ness we are causing ...
... driven— but this is only because he started off already obsessed with control and with a hunger for immortality . It is true that primitive man was kinder to nature , that he did not cause the kind of destructive- ness we are causing ...
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... driven works ; once he had eclipsed the sacred dimension , he had only the earth left to testify to the value of his life . This is why , I think , even one - dimensional politicians and bureaucrats , in both capitalist and communist ...
... driven works ; once he had eclipsed the sacred dimension , he had only the earth left to testify to the value of his life . This is why , I think , even one - dimensional politicians and bureaucrats , in both capitalist and communist ...
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... driven to in- dividuate himself as an organism , to develop his own peculiar talents and personality . And what , then , would be the highest development and use of those talents ? To contribute to the struggle against evil , of course ...
... driven to in- dividuate himself as an organism , to develop his own peculiar talents and personality . And what , then , would be the highest development and use of those talents ? To contribute to the struggle against evil , of course ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
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