The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass AgeProfessor of educational psychology at University of Chicago ponders the individual's modern philosophical problem of achieving self realization, preserving freedom, and adapting society to both. |
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The Concordance of Opposites | 3 |
Imaginary Impasse | 43 |
The Consciousness of Freedom | 65 |
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