Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?: American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth CenturyWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.) Half-title: American conservative thought in the twentieth century. |
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... reason ; but the Platonic state answers this challenge so successfully that it again becomes the entire area of man's endeavor . The state brings justice into the flux of history . Theocracy has returned , and absolutism ; but reason is ...
... reason ; but the Platonic state answers this challenge so successfully that it again becomes the entire area of man's endeavor . The state brings justice into the flux of history . Theocracy has returned , and absolutism ; but reason is ...
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... reason is not of itself free , the state based on " pure reason " only recognizes the freedom to be right ; the state must , in Rousseau's famous phrase , “ force men to be free ” : In and of itself , a people always wills , but does ...
... reason is not of itself free , the state based on " pure reason " only recognizes the freedom to be right ; the state must , in Rousseau's famous phrase , “ force men to be free ” : In and of itself , a people always wills , but does ...
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... reason , to maintain , as is today so often done , that Edmund Burke's attitude to reason is an essential element of any definition of conservatism . True , no conservatism can accept utopian reliance upon the limited reason of one ...
... reason , to maintain , as is today so often done , that Edmund Burke's attitude to reason is an essential element of any definition of conservatism . True , no conservatism can accept utopian reliance upon the limited reason of one ...
Contents
you Ever See a Dream Walking? | xv |
Selected Bibliography | xli |
Part One THE HISTORICAL | 3 |
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