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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Page 34
... already somewhat “ ahead of himself " simply by virtue of being human and not animal . No wonder people have almost universally feared the " evil eye " in traditional society : it expresses a natural and age - old reaction to making ...
... already somewhat “ ahead of himself " simply by virtue of being human and not animal . No wonder people have almost universally feared the " evil eye " in traditional society : it expresses a natural and age - old reaction to making ...
Page 114
... already be obvious that with observations like these on sacrifice and scapegoating we are taking in immense areas in human relations ; when we think in these terms , we already feel quickened in our thoughts and our pulse — we know we ...
... already be obvious that with observations like these on sacrifice and scapegoating we are taking in immense areas in human relations ; when we think in these terms , we already feel quickened in our thoughts and our pulse — we know we ...
Page 160
... already becoming uncomfortable with the repeated " war games " and hydrogen - bomb tests by nations on power trips , tests that lay their danger onto innocent and powerless neighbors . In a way it is the drama of the family and the ...
... already becoming uncomfortable with the repeated " war games " and hydrogen - bomb tests by nations on power trips , tests that lay their danger onto innocent and powerless neighbors . In a way it is the drama of the family and the ...
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
Copyright | |
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