Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative ThoughtWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.), Charles R. Kesler |
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... human reason : we do not and we may not . Human reason set up a cross on Calvary , human reason set up the cup of hemlock , human reason was canonised in Nôtre Dame . " Politics is the art of apprehending and applying the Justice which ...
... human reason : we do not and we may not . Human reason set up a cross on Calvary , human reason set up the cup of hemlock , human reason was canonised in Nôtre Dame . " Politics is the art of apprehending and applying the Justice which ...
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... human action but not the execution of human de- sign . " ' 12 It stresses that what we call political order is much less the product of our ordering intelligence than is commonly imagined . As their immediate successors saw it , what ...
... human action but not the execution of human de- sign . " ' 12 It stresses that what we call political order is much less the product of our ordering intelligence than is commonly imagined . As their immediate successors saw it , what ...
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... human behavior " they cannot be restricted to human behavior as it is affected by this or that regime . But human behav- ior as studied by " empirical " research always occurs within a peculiar regime . More precisely , the most ...
... human behavior " they cannot be restricted to human behavior as it is affected by this or that regime . But human behav- ior as studied by " empirical " research always occurs within a peculiar regime . More precisely , the most ...
Contents
Preface by William F Buckley Jr | 1 |
You Ever See a Dream Walking? by William | 19 |
The Quest for a Tradition | 37 |
Copyright | |
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