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 144
... possible to have any kind of humanistic , liberating social theory if man carried within himself the seeds of destructiveness.23 And certainly the facts of the history of war and scapegoating seem to have borne out Kluckhohn and Freud ...
... possible to have any kind of humanistic , liberating social theory if man carried within himself the seeds of destructiveness.23 And certainly the facts of the history of war and scapegoating seem to have borne out Kluckhohn and Freud ...
Page 146
... possible ? As far as the science of man is concerned , many thinkers since the Enlightenment have believed that everything is possible for a science of society . Rousseau , Marx , Owens - the whole school of utopian socialists and still ...
... possible ? As far as the science of man is concerned , many thinkers since the Enlightenment have believed that everything is possible for a science of society . Rousseau , Marx , Owens - the whole school of utopian socialists and still ...
Page 169
... possible that cultural developments might lie ahead which might make it possible even to renounce age - old instinctual satis- factions.30 It is even easier to speculate about cultural developments that might influence the fear of death ...
... possible that cultural developments might lie ahead which might make it possible even to renounce age - old instinctual satis- factions.30 It is even easier to speculate about cultural developments that might influence the fear of death ...
Contents
Between Appetite | 1 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
Copyright | |
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