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The Denial of Death
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Michael Oakeshott
“Culture teaches that there is much one does not want to know .”
Michael Oakeshott

Alexandre Kojève
“The bourgeois intellectual neither fights nor works.”
Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit

Michael Oakeshott
“Education is not acquiring a stock of ready-made ideas, images, sentiments, beliefs and so forth; it is learning to look, to listen, to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe, to understand, to choose and to wish.”
Michael Oakeshott, VOICE OF LIBERAL LEARNING, THE

Thomas Paine
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.”
Thomas Paine, The Crisis

Alexandre Kojève
“It is precisely to the organization and the ‘humanization’ of its free time that future humanity will have to devote its efforts. (Did Marx himself not say, in repeating, without realizing it, a saying of Aristotle’s: that the ultimate motive of progress, and thus of socialism, is the desire to ensure a maximum of leisure for man?)”
Alexandre Kojève

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