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As a political architect concerned with building a nation , one might say , Moses sees anarchy as a necessary transitional stage from slavery toward equity . Until the people themselves experience what anarchy does to them - observe the ...
As a political architect concerned with building a nation , one might say , Moses sees anarchy as a necessary transitional stage from slavery toward equity . Until the people themselves experience what anarchy does to them - observe the ...
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mation of three regimes — from slavery to anarchy to equity to hierarchy . How did he do it ? To escape from a slave regime , it is necessary to challenge the omnipotence of its leader . When the Egyptians are made to suffer , but the ...
mation of three regimes — from slavery to anarchy to equity to hierarchy . How did he do it ? To escape from a slave regime , it is necessary to challenge the omnipotence of its leader . When the Egyptians are made to suffer , but the ...
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Moses ' journey and testing anew his rejection of anarchy and his disappointment with equity . In the end , their collective experience parallels that of the people of the exodus : they fall into anarchy , choose equity , but cannot ...
Moses ' journey and testing anew his rejection of anarchy and his disappointment with equity . In the end , their collective experience parallels that of the people of the exodus : they fall into anarchy , choose equity , but cannot ...
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Contents
Introduction Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership? | 1 |
Passive People Passive Leader | 27 |
Pharaoh What Not to Do | 62 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader |
| Author | Aaron B. Wildavsky |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Alabama Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2010 |
| ISBN | 0817301682, 9780817301682 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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