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... moral judgment also condemns as unworthy , as indignus . It is this combination of the moral judgment with the comic experience which gives satire its distinctive character . 66 66 These propositions are of course not advanced here for ...
... moral judgment also condemns as unworthy , as indignus . It is this combination of the moral judgment with the comic experience which gives satire its distinctive character . 66 66 These propositions are of course not advanced here for ...
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... moral neutrality being then the utter limit of moral achievement . This , of course , was hardly satisfactory to the rigorists . Similarly , the ascetics could and did argue that they did not deny the moral value of man's nature nor ...
... moral neutrality being then the utter limit of moral achievement . This , of course , was hardly satisfactory to the rigorists . Similarly , the ascetics could and did argue that they did not deny the moral value of man's nature nor ...
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... moral nihilism , philosophical anarchism , or pyrrhonism . In morals , declared Mandeville , there are no uni- versally valid rules of conduct . No person believes one thing but someone professes the opposite ; no nation approves one ...
... moral nihilism , philosophical anarchism , or pyrrhonism . In morals , declared Mandeville , there are no uni- versally valid rules of conduct . No person believes one thing but someone professes the opposite ; no nation approves one ...
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A Note in Defence of Satire 12 L | 12 |
The Authenticity of Anna Sewards Published Correspondence | 50 |
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