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... context , and individual capacities . Rigid , inflexible , and uncompromising , it tries to force all feet into the same shoe . Other defects of uncompromising absolutism are only variants of this fundamental insensitivity ...
... context , and individual capacities . Rigid , inflexible , and uncompromising , it tries to force all feet into the same shoe . Other defects of uncompromising absolutism are only variants of this fundamental insensitivity ...
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... context is somewhat different from every other to the non sequitur that therefore these differences must always be ... context alter the values appropriate to them . There may be some values which are good for one context only , but ...
... context is somewhat different from every other to the non sequitur that therefore these differences must always be ... context alter the values appropriate to them . There may be some values which are good for one context only , but ...
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... context ; to this one would simply have added the further truth that sometimes ( in the career of a given individual ) the contexts ( certain factors which make up that individual's condition ) are sufficiently constant to make certain ...
... context ; to this one would simply have added the further truth that sometimes ( in the career of a given individual ) the contexts ( certain factors which make up that individual's condition ) are sufficiently constant to make certain ...
Contents
PART | 5 |
OBJECTIVITY VERSUS COMMITMENT | 30 |
FREEDOM VERSUS AUTHORITY | 59 |
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