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... moral precepts - abstract because divorcing ends from the means by which they must be realized - defines the issue ... moral concerns . This position in turn served to perpetuate and confirm the older separation of man as man from the ...
... moral precepts - abstract because divorcing ends from the means by which they must be realized - defines the issue ... moral concerns . This position in turn served to perpetuate and confirm the older separation of man as man from the ...
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... morals , indi- vidual conduct , and on the seriousness with which we uphold moral principles against the expediencies and exigencies of social machin- ery , is a very different matter . Issues in this field have become so confused that ...
... morals , indi- vidual conduct , and on the seriousness with which we uphold moral principles against the expediencies and exigencies of social machin- ery , is a very different matter . Issues in this field have become so confused that ...
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... moral sense has been blunted rather than sharpened . When we are reminded , as more and more frequently happens , that one cannot make omelettes without break- ing eggs , the eggs which are broken are almost all of the kind which a ...
... moral sense has been blunted rather than sharpened . When we are reminded , as more and more frequently happens , that one cannot make omelettes without break- ing eggs , the eggs which are broken are almost all of the kind which a ...
Contents
SPACE ARRANGEMENT The Battlefield of Waterloo | 7 |
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST True and False Humor | 13 |
ANALOGY The Stagecoach from Looking Backward Edward Bellamy | 19 |
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