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Page xiv
... minds by the latter group of writings is strangely different from that left by the former . If in the political writings the State is all in all , ' in the moral and social writings it seems at first sight to be either disparaged or ...
... minds by the latter group of writings is strangely different from that left by the former . If in the political writings the State is all in all , ' in the moral and social writings it seems at first sight to be either disparaged or ...
Page xviii
... mind , that the change from the natural to the civil state was a sudden change , the act of a single moment , that in which the social Contract was concluded , or the proposals of the heaven - sent Lawgiver accepted . In other words ...
... mind , that the change from the natural to the civil state was a sudden change , the act of a single moment , that in which the social Contract was concluded , or the proposals of the heaven - sent Lawgiver accepted . In other words ...
Page xix
... mind whether the Contract , which forms the pivot of his whole theory , is to be regarded as a transaction which actually happened in the past , or as a symbolic presentation of the ideal to which all well - ordered communities are ...
... mind whether the Contract , which forms the pivot of his whole theory , is to be regarded as a transaction which actually happened in the past , or as a symbolic presentation of the ideal to which all well - ordered communities are ...
Page xx
... mind , and accepted as valid by the heart , of all its members whenever they seriously set themselves to consider the origin and nature of the bond which binds each of them to the others.2 The mischief of this assumption is not merely ...
... mind , and accepted as valid by the heart , of all its members whenever they seriously set themselves to consider the origin and nature of the bond which binds each of them to the others.2 The mischief of this assumption is not merely ...
Page xxiii
... mind of man ; that ' his actions receive thereby a moral character which was wanting to them . before ' ; that from a stupid and limited animal , he now for the first time becomes a reasoning being and a man ' ; in one word , that ...
... mind of man ; that ' his actions receive thereby a moral character which was wanting to them . before ' ; that from a stupid and limited animal , he now for the first time becomes a reasoning being and a man ' ; in one word , that ...
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