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acting consciously for his own often selfish ends, is the unconscious agent of
God's purpose. Mandeville's “private vices—public benefits” was an early and
deliberately paradoxical expression of this discovery. Adam Smith's hidden hand
and ...
acting consciously for his own often selfish ends, is the unconscious agent of
God's purpose. Mandeville's “private vices—public benefits” was an early and
deliberately paradoxical expression of this discovery. Adam Smith's hidden hand
and ...
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The people who struggle, say, to extend civil rights to all, or to reform penal
practice, or to remove inequalities of race or wealth are consciously seeking to do
just those things: they are not consciously seeking to “progress,” to realize some
...
The people who struggle, say, to extend civil rights to all, or to reform penal
practice, or to remove inequalities of race or wealth are consciously seeking to do
just those things: they are not consciously seeking to “progress,” to realize some
...
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It was, as Lincoln's words suggest, a unique event— the first occasion in history
when men deliberately and consciously formed themselves into a nation, and
then consciously and deliberately set out to mould other men into it.
It was, as Lincoln's words suggest, a unique event— the first occasion in history
when men deliberately and consciously formed themselves into a nation, and
then consciously and deliberately set out to mould other men into it.
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Inhalt
THE HISTORIAN AND HIS FACTs | 3 |
SOCIETY AND THE INDIVIDUAL | 36 |
THE WIDENING HoRIZON | 177 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | What is History? The George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures, 1961 Trevelyan lectures |
| Autor | Edward Hallett Carr |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Knopf, 1962 |
| Original von | die University of Virginia |
| Digitalisiert | 23. Jan. 2009 |
| Länge | 209 Seiten |
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