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 146
... new system of kingship and the state and so they imagine that things were always this way and they accept them without complaint . Marx repeated the identical 146 Retrospect and Conclusion: What Is the Heroic Society?
... new system of kingship and the state and so they imagine that things were always this way and they accept them without complaint . Marx repeated the identical 146 Retrospect and Conclusion: What Is the Heroic Society?
Page 149
... imagine powers , and he can invent ways to protect power . This means , as Nietzsche saw and shocked his world with , that all moral categories are power cate- gories ; they are not about virtue in any abstract sense . Purity , good ...
... imagine powers , and he can invent ways to protect power . This means , as Nietzsche saw and shocked his world with , that all moral categories are power cate- gories ; they are not about virtue in any abstract sense . Purity , good ...
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... imagine , search out in the eyes of his fellows , with their gleam of passionate dedication . This is also what Jung intimates about the vitality of transference when he calls it " kinship libido . " 14 This means that men join together ...
... imagine , search out in the eyes of his fellows , with their gleam of passionate dedication . This is also what Jung intimates about the vitality of transference when he calls it " kinship libido . " 14 This means that men join together ...
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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