Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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... cultural symbols which do not age or decay to quiet his fear of his ultimate end - and of more im- mediate concern , to provide the promise of indefinite duration . His culture gives man an alter - organism which is more durable and ...
... cultural symbols which do not age or decay to quiet his fear of his ultimate end - and of more im- mediate concern , to provide the promise of indefinite duration . His culture gives man an alter - organism which is more durable and ...
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... culture . Everything cultural is fabricated and given meaning by the mind , a meaning that was not given by physical nature . Culture is in this sense " supernatural , " and all systematiza- tions of culture have in the end the same ...
... culture . Everything cultural is fabricated and given meaning by the mind , a meaning that was not given by physical nature . Culture is in this sense " supernatural , " and all systematiza- tions of culture have in the end the same ...
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... Culture means that which is supernatural ; all culture has the basic mandate to transcend the physical , to permanently transcend it . All human ideologies , then , are affairs that deal directly with the sacred- ness of the individual ...
... Culture means that which is supernatural ; all culture has the basic mandate to transcend the physical , to permanently transcend it . All human ideologies , then , are affairs that deal directly with the sacred- ness of the individual ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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