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... Human beings are born into , nurtured through , and laid to final rest in ... group or groups to which they belong or from which they are alienated or ... human groupings is varied , emanating out from family to " kin - clan , " to ...
... Human beings are born into , nurtured through , and laid to final rest in ... group or groups to which they belong or from which they are alienated or ... human groupings is varied , emanating out from family to " kin - clan , " to ...
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... human societies possess such a norm , and for the most obvious of reasons - individual and group sur- vival . Unjust killing of another human being is to be avoided at all costs , and a violation of this rule is inevitably the most ...
... human societies possess such a norm , and for the most obvious of reasons - individual and group sur- vival . Unjust killing of another human being is to be avoided at all costs , and a violation of this rule is inevitably the most ...
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... human group may arbitrarily exterminate another group . But if such a principle were to be univer- salized , that is , accepted by the species as a whole , it would clearly contradict the species ' primary preference for survi- val ...
... human group may arbitrarily exterminate another group . But if such a principle were to be univer- salized , that is , accepted by the species as a whole , it would clearly contradict the species ' primary preference for survi- val ...
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The Query and the Quest | 5 |
The Philosophers Stone | 15 |
In Search of the Beast | 31 |
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