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... True enough . But it is also true that there are conditions without which the very fact of existence itself would seem to be impossible . To be present in the world implies strictly that there exists a body which is at once a material ...
... True enough . But it is also true that there are conditions without which the very fact of existence itself would seem to be impossible . To be present in the world implies strictly that there exists a body which is at once a material ...
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... true , however , that in these two processes , maintaining and creating ( both of which are active ) , the synthesis of becoming is not accomplished in the same manner . To maintain is to deny the scat- tering of instants , it is to ...
... true , however , that in these two processes , maintaining and creating ( both of which are active ) , the synthesis of becoming is not accomplished in the same manner . To maintain is to deny the scat- tering of instants , it is to ...
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... true nature . But this true nature is that of a struggle unceasingly begun , unceasingly abolished ; it requires man to outdo himself at every moment . We might put it in other words and say that man attains an authentically moral ...
... true nature . But this true nature is that of a struggle unceasingly begun , unceasingly abolished ; it requires man to outdo himself at every moment . We might put it in other words and say that man attains an authentically moral ...
Contents
CHAPTER Part I DESTINY | 3 |
HISTORY | 61 |
Through the Middle Ages to Eighteenthcentury | 97 |
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