The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... human . One could say of him that nothing human was alien to him . He was a man of character . His experiences had quickly made him averse to the help of so - called patrons . And he radi- cally rejected patrons after the indignity of ...
... human . One could say of him that nothing human was alien to him . He was a man of character . His experiences had quickly made him averse to the help of so - called patrons . And he radi- cally rejected patrons after the indignity of ...
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... human individuals , animals and objects ( 439-441 ) . Why " supérieurs " ? It should be born in mind that French investigators define as " dégénérés inférieurs " oligophrenic per- sonalities , idiots , imbeciles and persons with mental ...
... human individuals , animals and objects ( 439-441 ) . Why " supérieurs " ? It should be born in mind that French investigators define as " dégénérés inférieurs " oligophrenic per- sonalities , idiots , imbeciles and persons with mental ...
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... human unitedness , “ like the True lives aimed at the One " * ( Jaspers ) . Opening oneself is the motivation of being sympathetic , striving to the original mode of being - human : " The original , however , is not the initial but that ...
... human unitedness , “ like the True lives aimed at the One " * ( Jaspers ) . Opening oneself is the motivation of being sympathetic , striving to the original mode of being - human : " The original , however , is not the initial but that ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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