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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... offerings of surplus exceeded those of the other clan . In a word , it gave him cosmic heroism , the distinction of ... offering was made to the gods ; he got spiritual merit for his labors . I suppose early Calvinism was an echo of this ...
... offerings of surplus exceeded those of the other clan . In a word , it gave him cosmic heroism , the distinction of ... offering was made to the gods ; he got spiritual merit for his labors . I suppose early Calvinism was an echo of this ...
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... offerings , and for this he was willing to pay the price of his own subjection . In Hocart's words : The Fijians had invisible gods , sometimes present in the priest or in an animal ; they preferred a god always present , one they could ...
... offerings , and for this he was willing to pay the price of his own subjection . In Hocart's words : The Fijians had invisible gods , sometimes present in the priest or in an animal ; they preferred a god always present , one they could ...
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... offerings man sought to bring the invisible powers of nature to bear on his visible well - being . Well , the divine king sums up this whole cosmology all in himself . He is the god who receives offerings , the protagonist of light ...
... offerings man sought to bring the invisible powers of nature to bear on his visible well - being . Well , the divine king sums up this whole cosmology all in himself . He is the god who receives offerings , the protagonist of light ...
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
Copyright | |
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