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... Decalogue of Judaeo - Christian tradition . Its fundamental identity with other moral codes will be obvious . I bluntly contend that the Decalogue , the Ten Command- ments , is an example of a moral regimen , not of how human believers ...
... Decalogue of Judaeo - Christian tradition . Its fundamental identity with other moral codes will be obvious . I bluntly contend that the Decalogue , the Ten Command- ments , is an example of a moral regimen , not of how human believers ...
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... Decalogue . In this Judeo - Christian expression of three tenets it is identical to that of other cultures in other places at other times in invoking belief , respect , and rever- ence for a being or beings , supposed superior to our ...
... Decalogue . In this Judeo - Christian expression of three tenets it is identical to that of other cultures in other places at other times in invoking belief , respect , and rever- ence for a being or beings , supposed superior to our ...
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... Decalogue should not be misunderstood as an attempt to derive " ought " from " is . " Quite the contrary , I am in no way implying that its principles ought to be complied with ( carry any prescriptive weight ) merely because they have ...
... Decalogue should not be misunderstood as an attempt to derive " ought " from " is . " Quite the contrary , I am in no way implying that its principles ought to be complied with ( carry any prescriptive weight ) merely because they have ...
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The Query and the Quest | 5 |
The Philosophers Stone | 15 |
In Search of the Beast | 31 |
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