Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative ThoughtWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.), Charles R. Kesler |
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... individual does with his freedom ; it is not an all - embracing ethic . Indeed , a major aim of the liberal is to leave the ethical problem for the individual to wrestle with . The “ really ” important ethical problems are those that ...
... individual does with his freedom ; it is not an all - embracing ethic . Indeed , a major aim of the liberal is to leave the ethical problem for the individual to wrestle with . The “ really ” important ethical problems are those that ...
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... individual human being today with admirable precision and with deep concern for the oppression of personality in a collectivizing society . Yet both of them , like the other New Conservatives , are blind to the effective cause of the ...
... individual human being today with admirable precision and with deep concern for the oppression of personality in a collectivizing society . Yet both of them , like the other New Conservatives , are blind to the effective cause of the ...
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... individual . " 42 The ration- alists of the eighteenth century , indeed , explicitly argued that , since they knew human nature , they " could easily find the morals which suited it . " ' 43 They did not understand that what they called ...
... individual . " 42 The ration- alists of the eighteenth century , indeed , explicitly argued that , since they knew human nature , they " could easily find the morals which suited it . " ' 43 They did not understand that what they called ...
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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