Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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Page 66
... institution of kingship because it was equated with prosperity ; from the beginning men renounced some dimensions of life in order to open up others , and this is what made it easy for monolithic historical structures of power to take ...
... institution of kingship because it was equated with prosperity ; from the beginning men renounced some dimensions of life in order to open up others , and this is what made it easy for monolithic historical structures of power to take ...
Page 70
... institution of kingship to keep its authority ; the attack on the fatality of biology , the accidents of heredity , was put into the service of the ideology of the family , and it reinforced patriarchy . We still see this in Roman ...
... institution of kingship to keep its authority ; the attack on the fatality of biology , the accidents of heredity , was put into the service of the ideology of the family , and it reinforced patriarchy . We still see this in Roman ...
Page 133
... institutions can do is to keep it blunted ; and social institutions that already ef- fectively do this without excessive repression and within legal safe- guards for individual rights — why , such social institutions should not be ...
... institutions can do is to keep it blunted ; and social institutions that already ef- fectively do this without excessive repression and within legal safe- guards for individual rights — why , such social institutions should not be ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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