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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... ancient world . And we can see in one swoop why ancient man so willingly embraced his new alienated status under divine kingships , as the chiefless tribes of Fiji eagerly chose a chief with all the troubles this meant . It all goes ...
... ancient world . And we can see in one swoop why ancient man so willingly embraced his new alienated status under divine kingships , as the chiefless tribes of Fiji eagerly chose a chief with all the troubles this meant . It all goes ...
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Ernest Becker. experience some of the quiet confidence of the ancients who left the temples with their life - securing ... ancient world , a man who based the value of his life - and so of his immortality - on a new cosmology centered on ...
Ernest Becker. experience some of the quiet confidence of the ancients who left the temples with their life - securing ... ancient world , a man who based the value of his life - and so of his immortality - on a new cosmology centered on ...
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... ancient pursuit of wealth with a vengeance and straightforward dedication of which archaic man was incapable . We have become completely secular . Accordingly , we no longer have any problem with sin , since there is nothing to be ...
... ancient pursuit of wealth with a vengeance and straightforward dedication of which archaic man was incapable . We have become completely secular . Accordingly , we no longer have any problem with sin , since there is nothing to be ...
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
Copyright | |
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