Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative ThoughtWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.), Charles R. Kesler |
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... truth is not knowable , that the freedom of inquiry is the nearest we can hope to come to the truth . And yet , although the American people tolerate and even support universities dedicated in effect to the proposition that no truth is ...
... truth is not knowable , that the freedom of inquiry is the nearest we can hope to come to the truth . And yet , although the American people tolerate and even support universities dedicated in effect to the proposition that no truth is ...
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... truth to John Stuart Mill's doctrine that truth will always prevail in the free marketplace of ideas , and this much only : Given a society free of the power of a totalizing state , truth will survive alongside all the errors and will ...
... truth to John Stuart Mill's doctrine that truth will always prevail in the free marketplace of ideas , and this much only : Given a society free of the power of a totalizing state , truth will survive alongside all the errors and will ...
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... truth requires a freedom which , unfortunately , also makes it possible for men to choose evil and error . In a word , good and truth cannot be enforced , because by their essential nature they cannot be made real in men unless they are ...
... truth requires a freedom which , unfortunately , also makes it possible for men to choose evil and error . In a word , good and truth cannot be enforced , because by their essential nature they cannot be made real in men unless they are ...
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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