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Page 52
... ideal aspirations for some future day that will never come , and condescend to opportunism and compromise . But Plato is already dreaming of an ideal organisa- tion of society . He even imagines that the Thirty Tyrants ( of all men ) ...
... ideal aspirations for some future day that will never come , and condescend to opportunism and compromise . But Plato is already dreaming of an ideal organisa- tion of society . He even imagines that the Thirty Tyrants ( of all men ) ...
Page 58
... ideal of order , which ( as Professor Zimmern has remarked ) we are substituting for the ideal of personal freedom , associated with democracy . There is no place more orderly than a factory , no place where personal eccentricities are ...
... ideal of order , which ( as Professor Zimmern has remarked ) we are substituting for the ideal of personal freedom , associated with democracy . There is no place more orderly than a factory , no place where personal eccentricities are ...
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... ideal state . It may be that the human race is condemned never to see the end of trouble , because it will never find a way to prevent the men who worship power and wealth from gripping the levers of the political machine . Plato ...
... ideal state . It may be that the human race is condemned never to see the end of trouble , because it will never find a way to prevent the men who worship power and wealth from gripping the levers of the political machine . Plato ...
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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