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... animals and then expect from us only the fierce animal devotion to the young , the herd instinct and not the high , warring hooves of the stallion . As for that light round the brow , the radiance of the unending morning of paradise ...
... animals and then expect from us only the fierce animal devotion to the young , the herd instinct and not the high , warring hooves of the stallion . As for that light round the brow , the radiance of the unending morning of paradise ...
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... animals . Here he is practically paraphrasing Cicero , who writes in De Officiis : ' the beast . . . adapts itself to ... animal ' instinct ' , and he extricates himself by a combination of abuse , obscurantism , and good , empirical ...
... animals . Here he is practically paraphrasing Cicero , who writes in De Officiis : ' the beast . . . adapts itself to ... animal ' instinct ' , and he extricates himself by a combination of abuse , obscurantism , and good , empirical ...
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... animal nature needs — sustenance , shelter , copulation — it turns into something too near to animal nature to be readily distinguish- able from it . Man is unique , and his unique needs are those of the psyche and the imagination . In ...
... animal nature needs — sustenance , shelter , copulation — it turns into something too near to animal nature to be readily distinguish- able from it . Man is unique , and his unique needs are those of the psyche and the imagination . In ...
Contents
The Human Attributes | 28 |
The Uniformity of Human Nature | 54 |
The Depravity of Man | 70 |
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