The Anatomy of Fascism
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October 16, 2017 2001-07-08T18:51:07-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/59d/20010708185159002.jpg"The civil war had the affect of making seem obsolete the values and beliefs of the intellectual culture of the era that preceded the war." "There was suddenly a desire to eschew certainty, to get rid of absolute convictions, to get people to take their convictions and beliefs down to a human level and to treat them as contingent, fallible constructions...that we can use in an adaptive way to get what we want out of the world without resorting to violence."
October 16, 2017 2001-07-08T18:51:07-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/59d/20010708185159002.jpg"The civil war had the affect of making seem obsolete the values and beliefs of the intellectual culture of the era that preceded the war." "There was suddenly a desire to eschew certainty, to get rid of absolute convictions, to get people to take their convictions and beliefs down to a human level and to treat them as contingent, fallible constructions...that we can use in an adaptive way to get what we want out of the world without resorting to violence."
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"The civil war had the affect of making seem obsolete the values and beliefs of the intellectual culture of the era that preceded the war." "There was suddenly a desire to eschew certainty, to get rid of absolute convictions, to get people to take their convictions and beliefs down to a human level and to treat them as contingent, fallible constructions...that we can use in an adaptive way to get what we want out of the world without resorting to violence." close
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