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... social comedy at all , to distinguish the excrescences from the polite normality of an age , means that the writer must interpose between his sensitiveness and the world a neutralizing screen of rational judgement . He is not en- gaged ...
... social comedy at all , to distinguish the excrescences from the polite normality of an age , means that the writer must interpose between his sensitiveness and the world a neutralizing screen of rational judgement . He is not en- gaged ...
Page 233
... Social Contract may be described as being , after Plato's Re- public , the greatest attempt of the European mind to create a con- sciousness of the social whole - and so to bring the social whole into being . It is the effort of society ...
... Social Contract may be described as being , after Plato's Re- public , the greatest attempt of the European mind to create a con- sciousness of the social whole - and so to bring the social whole into being . It is the effort of society ...
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... Social : the understanding of the true social contract is the culmination of an education not into the acceptance of social conventions but into an understanding of social reality . If this were understood , one would hear less of the ...
... Social : the understanding of the true social contract is the culmination of an education not into the acceptance of social conventions but into an understanding of social reality . If this were understood , one would hear less of the ...
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