Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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... heroic . But if we add together the logic of the heroic with the necessary fetishization of evil , we get a formula that is no longer pathetic but terrifying . It explains almost all by itself why man , of all animals , has caused the ...
... heroic . But if we add together the logic of the heroic with the necessary fetishization of evil , we get a formula that is no longer pathetic but terrifying . It explains almost all by itself why man , of all animals , has caused the ...
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... heroic animal . We can talk for a century about what causes human aggres- sion ; we can try to find the springs in animal instincts , or we can try to find them in bottled - up hatreds due to frustration or in some kind of miscarried ...
... heroic animal . We can talk for a century about what causes human aggres- sion ; we can try to find the springs in animal instincts , or we can try to find them in bottled - up hatreds due to frustration or in some kind of miscarried ...
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... heroic sainthood as an im- mediate personal one to be lived by all believers . In a perverse way , the churches have turned their backs both on the miraculousness of creation and on the need to do something heroic in this world . The ...
... heroic sainthood as an im- mediate personal one to be lived by all believers . In a perverse way , the churches have turned their backs both on the miraculousness of creation and on the need to do something heroic in this world . The ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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