The Common ProblemConstable, 1969 - 307 pages |
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Page 51
... doubt long felt by simpler folk – a doubt intensified but not initiated by the threat of nuclear catastrophe - whether progress itself is not involving humanity in processes too vast and complex for human reason to control . The ...
... doubt long felt by simpler folk – a doubt intensified but not initiated by the threat of nuclear catastrophe - whether progress itself is not involving humanity in processes too vast and complex for human reason to control . The ...
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... doubt they will purport to be based on infor- mation which itself purports to show what the majority of people ( or the ' average ' person ) wants to do . But the action taken to change the conditions determining future behaviour will ...
... doubt they will purport to be based on infor- mation which itself purports to show what the majority of people ( or the ' average ' person ) wants to do . But the action taken to change the conditions determining future behaviour will ...
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... doubt whether it ought to be so now . For the assumption implies a tacit , and much more fundamental assumption - that both sides are agreed on the essentials of human welfare . One of the basic , genuinely creative tensions in British ...
... doubt whether it ought to be so now . For the assumption implies a tacit , and much more fundamental assumption - that both sides are agreed on the essentials of human welfare . One of the basic , genuinely creative tensions in British ...
Contents
Illusion and Disillusion | 1 |
The Apotheosis of Society | 20 |
The Sterility of the General Will | 47 |
Copyright | |
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