Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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... feel the immense sense of achievement that follows from such a ritual contribution : the ritual- ist has done nothing less than enable life to continue ; he has contributed to sustaining and renewing the universe . If rituals generate ...
... feel the immense sense of achievement that follows from such a ritual contribution : the ritual- ist has done nothing less than enable life to continue ; he has contributed to sustaining and renewing the universe . If rituals generate ...
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... feeling hate and destructive impulses toward them , which puts him in an impossible bind . The bind is one kind of ... feel bound and doomed by one's physical appendages and orifices . Man also ex- periences guilt because he takes up ...
... feeling hate and destructive impulses toward them , which puts him in an impossible bind . The bind is one kind of ... feel bound and doomed by one's physical appendages and orifices . Man also ex- periences guilt because he takes up ...
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... feel for being a " fate - creating " object.13 We feel guilt in relation to what weighs on us , a weight that we sense is more than we can handle , and so our wives and children are a burden of guilt because we cannot possibly foresee ...
... feel for being a " fate - creating " object.13 We feel guilt in relation to what weighs on us , a weight that we sense is more than we can handle , and so our wives and children are a burden of guilt because we cannot possibly foresee ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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