The Needs of StrangersThis thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met." Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them from Augustine to Bosch, from Rosseau to Simone Weil. Incisive and moving, "The Needs of Strangers" returns philosophy to its proper place, as a guide to the art of being human. |
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Page 31
... capacity to know his own mind . It was exactly this which his daughter Regan had just done : O , Sir , you are old ; Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine . You should be rul'd and led By some discretion that discerns ...
... capacity to know his own mind . It was exactly this which his daughter Regan had just done : O , Sir , you are old ; Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine . You should be rul'd and led By some discretion that discerns ...
Page 72
... capacities of human will and reason . Augustine insisted , with Saint Paul as his authority , that men forfeited the capacity to earn their salvation as a result of the Fall . So far from having any natural inclination to God ...
... capacities of human will and reason . Augustine insisted , with Saint Paul as his authority , that men forfeited the capacity to earn their salvation as a result of the Fall . So far from having any natural inclination to God ...
Page 125
... capacity to know the difference between what he wants and what he needs . After Rousseau , the greatest modern attempt to explain how we might become capable of choosing our needs within a civic community is in the work of Marx.47 His ...
... capacity to know the difference between what he wants and what he needs . After Rousseau , the greatest modern attempt to explain how we might become capable of choosing our needs within a civic community is in the work of Marx.47 His ...
Contents
Tragedy and Utopia | 7 |
THE NATURAL AND THE SOCIAL | 25 |
THE BODY AND THE SPIRIT | 100 |
Copyright | |
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The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on Privacy, Solidarity, and the Politics of ... Michael Ignatieff No preview available - 1986 |
The Needs of Strangers: An Essay on Privacy, Solidarity, and the Politics of ... Michael Ignatieff No preview available - 1986 |
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