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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... truth - in Plato , truth as moral enlightenment ; in Aristotle , truth as a set of logical imperatives — and nothing is more absolute than the claim of truth upon man . The empirical observations of Aristotle gave rise to a certain ...
... truth - in Plato , truth as moral enlightenment ; in Aristotle , truth as a set of logical imperatives — and nothing is more absolute than the claim of truth upon man . The empirical observations of Aristotle gave rise to a certain ...
Page 199
... truth it conceals . Indeed the distinction between truth and the exact fabrications handed down for propagation by the heads of the world party in the Kremlin has disappeared very largely from the minds of its members . Until one has ...
... truth it conceals . Indeed the distinction between truth and the exact fabrications handed down for propagation by the heads of the world party in the Kremlin has disappeared very largely from the minds of its members . Until one has ...
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... truth of the pre - sci- entific awareness of political things . Yet one may raise the raise the ques- tion of how one can be certain of the truth of empirical statements that are pre - scientific . If we call an elaborate answer to this ...
... truth of the pre - sci- entific awareness of political things . Yet one may raise the raise the ques- tion of how one can be certain of the truth of empirical statements that are pre - scientific . If we call an elaborate answer to this ...
Contents
you Ever See a Dream Walking? | xv |
Selected Bibliography | xli |
Part One THE HISTORICAL | 3 |
Copyright | |
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