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1902-1994

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2> ...helping men in distress, and men who suffer injustice; and to the necessity of constructing institutions to serve such purposes.

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Politics, I demand, must uphold equalitarian and individualistic principles; dreams of beauty have to submit to the necessity of... 2>

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2> ...freer world.

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Marxism is only an episode - one of the many mistakes we have made in the perennial and dangerous struggle for building a better and... 2>

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2> ...is morally responsible for them [...]

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Critical dualism merely asserts that norms and normative laws can be made and changed by man, [...] and that it is therefore man who... 2>

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2> ...Platonic-Aristotelian essentialism.)

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[Plato] did not succeed in arresting social change. (Only much later, in the dark ages, was it arrested by the magic of the... 2>

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2> ...at a romanticized gangsterism.

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The more we try to return to the heroic age of tribalism, the more surely do we arrive at the Inquisition, at the Secret Police, and... 2>

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2> ...to moral, humanitarian sentiments, for anti-humanitarian, immoral purposes.

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Plato thus became, unconsciously, the pioneer of the many propagandists who, often in good faith, developed the technique of appealing... 2>

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In arguing against Utopianism, Marx condemns in fact all social engineering - a point which is rarely understood.

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3> ...the strain of civilization.

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2> ...the lost group spirit of tribalism. It is the expression of, and an ardent appeal to, the sentiments of those who suffer from... 3>

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This dream of unity and beauty and perfection, this aestethicism and holism and collectivism, is the product as well as the symptom of... 2>

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3> ...society.

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2> ...started for us that great revolution which, it seems, is still in its beginning - the transition from the closed to the open... 3>

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Thus when we say that our Western civilization derives from the Greeks, we ought to realize what it means. It means that the Greeks... 2>

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2> ...uncertain and insecure, using what reason we may have to plan as well as we can for both security and freedom.