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... democracy is always problematic . The wrong turnings are ex- asperatingly numerous and the signposts erected by the politicians notoriously unreliable . But democracy maintains that all these dangers added together are as nothing ...
... democracy is always problematic . The wrong turnings are ex- asperatingly numerous and the signposts erected by the politicians notoriously unreliable . But democracy maintains that all these dangers added together are as nothing ...
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... democracy . These are so close that they are really two aspects of the same thing . Academic freedom is democracy in the world of ideas : democracy is the extension of principles of academic freedom to cover all dimensions of the life ...
... democracy . These are so close that they are really two aspects of the same thing . Academic freedom is democracy in the world of ideas : democracy is the extension of principles of academic freedom to cover all dimensions of the life ...
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... Democracy seeks to develop citizens who are self - reliant , self- motivating , and self - directing - the opposite of automatons . Aca- demic freedom assumes that it is more important to cultivate minds that can evaluate and make ...
... Democracy seeks to develop citizens who are self - reliant , self- motivating , and self - directing - the opposite of automatons . Aca- demic freedom assumes that it is more important to cultivate minds that can evaluate and make ...
Contents
PART | 5 |
OBJECTIVITY VERSUS COMMITMENT | 30 |
FREEDOM VERSUS AUTHORITY | 59 |
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