Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?: American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth CenturyWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.) Half-title: American conservative thought in the twentieth century. |
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... experience . This is unmistak- able in Hobbes , the first moralist of the modern world to take candid account of the current experience of individuality . He understood a man as an organism governed by an impulse to avoid destruction ...
... experience . This is unmistak- able in Hobbes , the first moralist of the modern world to take candid account of the current experience of individuality . He understood a man as an organism governed by an impulse to avoid destruction ...
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... experience of individuality enjoyed . Briefly , then , my picture is as follows . Human individuality is an historical emergence , as " artificial " and as " natural " as the landscape . In modern Europe this emergence was gradual , and ...
... experience of individuality enjoyed . Briefly , then , my picture is as follows . Human individuality is an historical emergence , as " artificial " and as " natural " as the landscape . In modern Europe this emergence was gradual , and ...
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... experience stand or fall . Hence , the new political science , based as it is on empiricism , must reject the results of political understanding and political experience as such , and since the political things are given to us in ...
... experience stand or fall . Hence , the new political science , based as it is on empiricism , must reject the results of political understanding and political experience as such , and since the political things are given to us in ...
Contents
you Ever See a Dream Walking? | xv |
Selected Bibliography | xli |
Part One THE HISTORICAL | 3 |
Copyright | |
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