Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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... fear of life and death , and man's urge to transcend this fear in a cul- turally constituted heroism . My previous writings did not take sufficient account of truly vicious human behavior . This is a dilemma that I have been caught in ...
... fear of life and death , and man's urge to transcend this fear in a cul- turally constituted heroism . My previous writings did not take sufficient account of truly vicious human behavior . This is a dilemma that I have been caught in ...
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... fear , the same kind of fear a herd of gazelles experiences when the cheetah is chasing it : the moment of catharsis for the herd is when the fear abates because the cheetah has singled out one for a kill . The sacrifice of one for the ...
... fear , the same kind of fear a herd of gazelles experiences when the cheetah is chasing it : the moment of catharsis for the herd is when the fear abates because the cheetah has singled out one for a kill . The sacrifice of one for the ...
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... fear of death which cripples life . Also religion has the same difficult mission as Freud : to overcome the fear of self - knowledge . Self- knowledge is the hardest human task because it risks revealing to the person how his self ...
... fear of death which cripples life . Also religion has the same difficult mission as Freud : to overcome the fear of self - knowledge . Self- knowledge is the hardest human task because it risks revealing to the person how his self ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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