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on not being spooked by the word “bourgeois” 87kill off toleration in 1616 called themselves the Mud Beggars. One of the illegalnewspapers during the German occupation of the Second World Warwas De Geus, The Beggar. The normal Dutch word for such reversals of asneer became geuzennamen, beggars-names.I hope to make “bourgeois” a geuzennaam, to remake a word of contemptinto a word of honor.
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the bourgeois virtues
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Deirdre N. McCloskey is distinguish
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contentsPreface xiiiAcknowledgments
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Part 3THE PAGAN AND MASCULINE VIRTU
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35 Other Lists 379Many other lists
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prefaceWhile on an airplane reading
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acknowledgmentsJoseph Epstein, the
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acknowledgmentsxviiAnthony Waterman
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Apologya brief for the bourgeois vi
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a brief for the bourgeois virtues 3
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Page 110 and 111: 4the first virtue: love profaneand
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Page 114 and 115: Love rules.the first virtue: love p
Page 120 and 121: love and the transcendent 101attach
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Page 128 and 129: sweet love vs. interest 109The phil
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Page 132 and 133: sweet love vs. interest 113word “
Page 134 and 135: sweet love vs. interest 115economis
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Page 146 and 147: love and the bourgeoisie 127As some
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Page 150 and 151: love and the bourgeoisie 131You can
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love and the bourgeoisie 137becomes
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9solidarity regainedNow of course i
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solidarity regained 141politics, of
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solidarity regained 143unfulfilled,
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solidarity regained 145Somehow we h
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solidarity regained 147Apparently i
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part twoThe Christian andFeminine V
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152 chapter 10In spiritual terms fa
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154 chapter 10modern terms it is ca
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156 chapter 10paths, exchange postc
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158 chapter 10twentieth century fit
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11hope and its banishmentMan doth s
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162 chapter 11“retire” to Innis
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164 chapter 11qualities for a fit p
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166 chapter 11the suburbs” throug
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168 chapter 12That is, we humans li
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170 chapter 12A woman can have a st
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172 chapter 12But not faith or hope
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174 chapter 12early twentieth centu
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13van gogh and the transcendentprof
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178 chapter 13thirty-nine, apparent
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180 chapter 13his long, sober, bori
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182 chapter 13which is my life—th
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14humility and truthI cannot concei
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186 chapter 14The goods difficult o
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188 chapter 14But as Thomas Merton
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190 chapter 14mere rank. He was a d
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192 chapter 14A proud, modern, secu
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194 chapter 14notion of God. He def
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196 chapter 15Nelson, who now teach
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198 chapter 15charming, intelligent
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16the good of courageI am preaching
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the good of courage 203The task of
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in the 1830s and early 1840s. The c
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the good of courage 207cash payment
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the good of courage 209offered no r
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the good of courage 211for example,
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anachronistic courage in the bourge
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18taciturn courage againstthe “fe
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taciturn courage against the “fem
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19bourgeois vs. queerIn almost no A
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ourgeois vs. queer 233it, except fo
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ourgeois vs. queer 235artist, of ef
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ourgeois vs. queer 237appears, it i
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ourgeois vs. queer 239youngest son
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20balancing courageNonaristocratic
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alancing courage 243a means of want
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alancing courage 245view, for examp
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alancing courage 247The ancients an
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alancing courage 249company, what h
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part fourThe Androgynous Virtues:Pr
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254 chapter 21Good] were so potent
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256 chapter 21if you didn’t mean
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258 chapter 21God’s creature, too
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260 chapter 21Catalan country pries
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262 chapter 21nonbourgeois virtues,
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264 chapter 22strongly, as people l
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266 chapter 22none comes into the w
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268 chapter 22him, “with Kant vig
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23the storied character of virtue
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272 chapter 23Socrates—who I have
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274 chapter 23ice with a twist of l
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276 chapter 23ourselves,” or at a
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278 chapter 23aware of his alienati
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280 chapter 24And the method assume
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282 chapter 24incapacity to underst
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284 chapter 24ordinary citizens of
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286 chapter 24complete or infallibl
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288 chapter 24not imagined until Ro
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25the pagan-ethical bourgeoisThe Ro
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292 chapter 25and “morals” in i
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294 chapter 25are after all merely
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296 chapter 25“honesty” has com
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298 chapter 25Sartre is considering
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300 chapter 25character, and a demo
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26the system of the virtuesThe prin
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the system of the virtues 305Among
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should so act, but can’t bring hi
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the system of the virtues 309He cou
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the system of the virtues 311MacInt
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the system of the virtues 313a time
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a philosophical psychology? 315Cont
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a philosophical psychology? 317exer
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a philosophical psychology? 319stre
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ethical striving 321the strength of
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ethical striving 323since the 1960s
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ethical striving 325Small-ttruthsac
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ethical striving 327such as Aquinas
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William J. Bennett recognized corre
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ethical striving 331point of automa
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ethical realism 333The kind of real
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ethical realism 335descriptive is-s
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30against reductionThe life of reas
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against reduction 339So the modern
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against reduction 341But I said Noz
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against reduction 343The fact is ir
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against reduction 345a reasonable i
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character(s) 347sometimes be calm w
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character(s) 349The part that is pr
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character(s) 351Our ethical talk ov
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antimonism again 353The problem lie
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antimonism again 355want to general
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antimonism again 357John Gray descr
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antimonism again 359free contractin
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33why not one virtue?The seven virt
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why not one virtue? 363986 Chastity
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why not one virtue? 365has a kind o
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why not one virtue? 367Murdoch, tho
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34dropping the virtues, 1532-1958Th
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dropping the virtues, 1532-1958 371
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35other listsYet “few have resist
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other lists 381sense of purposevisi
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other lists 383Self-disciplineCompa
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other lists 385epistemology, and ci
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eastern and other ways 387The Chine
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eastern and other ways 389And Confu
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eastern and other ways 391The Japan
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eastern and other ways 393when an e
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needing virtues 395any such thing a
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needing virtues 397ordinary people
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needing virtues 399some counsel mor
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needing virtues 401to think of hims
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needing virtues 403dence . . . and
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part sixThe Bourgeois Usesof the Vi
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408 chapter 38speech, semiotics, so
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410 chapter 38Amartya Sen is not ab
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412 chapter 38final interest. And t
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414 chapter 381980 Posner was check
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39sacred reasonsThe sacred and the
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418 chapter 39about the same across
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420 chapter 39“friend,” then a
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422 chapter 39That can’t explain
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40not by p aloneHumans live through
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426 chapter 40people of whatever in
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428 chapter 40for eight decades, ea
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430 chapter 40income—maybe 10 per
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432 chapter 40relationships in the
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434 chapter 41about expected return
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436 chapter 41how important the ego
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438 chapter 41As H. Allen Orr obser
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440 chapter 41Crusade was inspired
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42god’s dealSeest thou a man dili
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444 chapter 42longest single passag
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446 chapter 42surprising that the r
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448 chapter 42nongain, but with an
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450 chapter 42I am not making the J
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452 chapter 43of hidden persuasion
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454 chapter 43So having a lot is no
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456 chapter 43Protestant, convictio
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458 chapter 43A noneconomist is inc
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460 chapter 43immediately and corre
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462 chapter 44new urban universitie
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464 chapter 44may properly sell Sha
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466 chapter 44But, yes: social life
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468 chapter 44of Friends property w
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470 chapter 45mistake. “One who m
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472 chapter 45The piling up of good
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474 chapter 45Veblen, Karl Polanyi,
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476 chapter 45“as stupid and as i
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46the richMr. Strahan put Johnson i
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480 chapter 46Why finish high schoo
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482 chapter 46and our wealth is bui
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484 chapter 46Now if the market dea
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486 chapter 46those who would have
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47good baronsOnly a temperate prude
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490 chapter 47that it was mainly by
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492 chapter 47Endowment for Interna
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494 chapter 47with Pittsburgh daily
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496 chapter 47India is the most rel
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498 chapter 48unless virtues come d
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500 chapter 48Aristotelian, or a so
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502 chapter 48The project here is t
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504 chapter 48Maseratis had fallen
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506 chapter 48Buddenbrooks (1901),
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508 chapter 48A third is the Justic
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510 postscript4 The Bourgeois City
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512 postscript9 & 10 The Bourgeois
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514 postscript14 Restarting Adam Sm
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516 notes to pages 10-1720. So it i
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518 notes to pages 27-34it out, I s
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520 notes to pages 45-66111. Rousse
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522 notes to pages 81-945. Schama,
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524 notes to pages 104-11214. Wood,
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526 notes to pages 124-13526. Nozic
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528 notes to pages 145-15826. See,
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530 notes to pages 169-1807. Comte-
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532 notes to pages 190-20323. White
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534 notes to pages 216-23010. McNei
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536 notes to pages 245-25710. As By
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538 notes to pages 266-28113. Quote
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540 notes to pages 294-31311. Quote
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542 notes to pages 322-3336. Frankf
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544 notes to pages 347-3643. Gray,I
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546 notes to pages 378-39126. Orwel
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548 notes to pages 401-41225. Willi
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550 notes to pages 424-438chapter 4
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552 notes to pages 453-4668. Hinze,
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554 notes to pages 483-4998. McClos
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works citedAbbing, Hans. 2002. Why
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works cited 559Reprinted as pp. 205
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works cited 587Walton, Gary. 1991.
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index1848: and ethics of bourgeoisi
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index 591Baar, Dirk-Jan van: on van
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index 593doomed, 13, 15, 40; ethica
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index 595creative class: as clerisy
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index 597at Rome, 155; as identity,
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index 599Goossens, Eymert-Jan: on t
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index 601Horkheimer, Max: on solida
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index 603Keynes, John Maynard: anim
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index 605Mailer, Norman: homosexual
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index 607Murray, Gilbert: following
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index 609power elite: Golden Rule,
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index 611both needed, 416; defined
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index 613203; society of love as by
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index 615Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher: B
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