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Page 57
Ernest Becker. precincts . . . . These may seem petty matters ; but they are fraught with great possibilities . The ... seems , as death and taxes ; we rely on the police to punish those who hurt us . But it hasn't always been so . In ...
Ernest Becker. precincts . . . . These may seem petty matters ; but they are fraught with great possibilities . The ... seems , as death and taxes ; we rely on the police to punish those who hurt us . But it hasn't always been so . In ...
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... seems that the Nazis really began to dedicate themselves to their large - scale sacrifices of life after 1941 when they were begin- ning to lose and suspected at some dim level of awareness that they might . They hastened the infamous ...
... seems that the Nazis really began to dedicate themselves to their large - scale sacrifices of life after 1941 when they were begin- ning to lose and suspected at some dim level of awareness that they might . They hastened the infamous ...
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... seem to be more and more obvious to today's youth . They are even becoming obvious to the organized religions themselves ... seems to represent a necessary denial of religious heroism . In the United States today courageous priests like ...
... seem to be more and more obvious to today's youth . They are even becoming obvious to the organized religions themselves ... seems to represent a necessary denial of religious heroism . In the United States today courageous priests like ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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