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... nature . Rather , he insisted , ' [ h ] unger , drink , sex , and the need of shelter and clothing seem the irreducible minimum of human wants . All else is capable of transmutation to forms as various as the history of society ...
... nature . Rather , he insisted , ' [ h ] unger , drink , sex , and the need of shelter and clothing seem the irreducible minimum of human wants . All else is capable of transmutation to forms as various as the history of society ...
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... nature was unfixed and ' capable of transmutation ' . On the other hand , he just as frequently argued for a more universal definition of human nature as fundamentally rational . In these more humanist moments , Laski describes ...
... nature was unfixed and ' capable of transmutation ' . On the other hand , he just as frequently argued for a more universal definition of human nature as fundamentally rational . In these more humanist moments , Laski describes ...
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... nature , pragmatic . Its practitioners do not sit down to write a treatise as dispassionate and universal as an exposition of geometry . In a very real sense , what they attempt is autobiography , the reaction upon themselves of a ...
... nature , pragmatic . Its practitioners do not sit down to write a treatise as dispassionate and universal as an exposition of geometry . In a very real sense , what they attempt is autobiography , the reaction upon themselves of a ...
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Lineages of Contemporary Imperialism | 3 |
The Social Question and the Problem of History after | 31 |
Small States and Empire | 53 |
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