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... wish chiefly to make some disclaimers and enter a caveat or two . First , the book makes no pretense at detailed scholarship . Its function is pedagogical . We felt that the important task of setting out the diverse moralities and ways ...
... wish chiefly to make some disclaimers and enter a caveat or two . First , the book makes no pretense at detailed scholarship . Its function is pedagogical . We felt that the important task of setting out the diverse moralities and ways ...
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... wish to be only lions do not understand this . Therefore , a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest , and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist . If men were all ...
... wish to be only lions do not understand this . Therefore , a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest , and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist . If men were all ...
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... wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may , I fear , appear wildly paradoxical and subversive . The doctrine in question is this : that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ...
... wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may , I fear , appear wildly paradoxical and subversive . The doctrine in question is this : that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ...
Contents
FOREWORD by the Reverend Canon Ronald H Preston | 8 |
A Selfobeying | 27 |
B Otherobeying | 37 |
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