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... norms or values that shape and channel human activity ; in further refinement and final articulation , the norms become the laws of the polity . To add a gloss then to Aristotle's description of us , I would say that we are a ...
... norms or values that shape and channel human activity ; in further refinement and final articulation , the norms become the laws of the polity . To add a gloss then to Aristotle's description of us , I would say that we are a ...
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... norm - directed creatures . Their poleis and norms might differ superficially , but essen- tially they were the same . Hence , if Aristotle were alive today , equipped with the new biological data , he would agree with the observation ...
... norm - directed creatures . Their poleis and norms might differ superficially , but essen- tially they were the same . Hence , if Aristotle were alive today , equipped with the new biological data , he would agree with the observation ...
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... norms . Since this seems to be the case , the question may be asked , " Why should these norms constantly recur , from time immemorial , in all human societies , regardless of civil- izational level ? " The probability factor is too ...
... norms . Since this seems to be the case , the question may be asked , " Why should these norms constantly recur , from time immemorial , in all human societies , regardless of civil- izational level ? " The probability factor is too ...
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The Query and the Quest | 5 |
The Philosophers Stone | 15 |
In Search of the Beast | 31 |
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