Solzhenitsyn at Harvard: The Address, Twelve Early Responses, and Six Later ReflectionsRonald Berman |
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... self - restraint or a renunciation of these rights , call for sacrifice and selfless risk : this would simply sound absurd . Voluntary self - restraint is almost unheard of : everybody strives toward further expansion to the extreme ...
... self - restraint or a renunciation of these rights , call for sacrifice and selfless risk : this would simply sound absurd . Voluntary self - restraint is almost unheard of : everybody strives toward further expansion to the extreme ...
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... self - interest , envy , vanity , and dozens of other defects . We are now ... restrain our passions and our irresponsibility . We have placed too much hope ... restraint can mankind rise above the world stream of materialism . Today it ...
... self - interest , envy , vanity , and dozens of other defects . We are now ... restrain our passions and our irresponsibility . We have placed too much hope ... restraint can mankind rise above the world stream of materialism . Today it ...
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... self - restraint abjured - still , Western man may have time to learn again the lessons of self - government . If Solzhenitsyn is more insistent about those lessons than the politic Tocqueville , that is because " the forces of Evil ...
... self - restraint abjured - still , Western man may have time to learn again the lessons of self - government . If Solzhenitsyn is more insistent about those lessons than the politic Tocqueville , that is because " the forces of Evil ...
Contents
A World Split Apart | 3 |
The Obsession of Solzhenitsyn | 23 |
Thoughts on Solzhenitsyn | 30 |
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