Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative ThoughtWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.), Charles R. Kesler |
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... society as but a set of relations between persons , not as an organism morally superior to persons . For if society be given a moral status supe- rior to persons , then it follows both implicitly and logically that society has the right ...
... society as but a set of relations between persons , not as an organism morally superior to persons . For if society be given a moral status supe- rior to persons , then it follows both implicitly and logically that society has the right ...
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... society , and the state which stands as the enforcing agency of corporate society , to the level of final political ends . The evils around us , they see , but the underlying causes of those evils they cannot understand . Russell Kirk ...
... society , and the state which stands as the enforcing agency of corporate society , to the level of final political ends . The evils around us , they see , but the underlying causes of those evils they cannot understand . Russell Kirk ...
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... society , however , can be governed solely by reasonable discussion about the common good ; even in a society of angels there might be disagreement about what the common good requires in the concrete case.26 In most societies , far more ...
... society , however , can be governed solely by reasonable discussion about the common good ; even in a society of angels there might be disagreement about what the common good requires in the concrete case.26 In most societies , far more ...
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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