Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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... the giving of the surplus was an offering to the gods who controlled the entire economy of nature in the first place , and so man needed to give precisely in order to keep himself immersed in the cosmology 28 ESCAPE FROM EVIL.
... the giving of the surplus was an offering to the gods who controlled the entire economy of nature in the first place , and so man needed to give precisely in order to keep himself immersed in the cosmology 28 ESCAPE FROM EVIL.
Page 86
... precisely the immortal marks of his own achievement . He might feel self - pity and bitterness about the one- dimensionality of his immortality , but in matters of eternity you take what you can get . No wonder , either , that the other ...
... precisely the immortal marks of his own achievement . He might feel self - pity and bitterness about the one- dimensionality of his immortality , but in matters of eternity you take what you can get . No wonder , either , that the other ...
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... precisely because of this illusion that mankind cannot get control over social evils like war . This is what makes war irrational : each person has the same hidden problem , and as antag- onists obsessively work their cross purposes ...
... precisely because of this illusion that mankind cannot get control over social evils like war . This is what makes war irrational : each person has the same hidden problem , and as antag- onists obsessively work their cross purposes ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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