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The covenant is its own concern , warning against the temptation of a chosen people to make inordinate claims . ... It would be hard to claim that the people voluntarily give up a claim on God ; they are frightened out of it .
The covenant is its own concern , warning against the temptation of a chosen people to make inordinate claims . ... It would be hard to claim that the people voluntarily give up a claim on God ; they are frightened out of it .
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Either equities claim that human nature is perfect , needing no institutions to perfect it or they claim that it is corrupted by institutions , so that it can only be saved by separation from authority . Either way equities attack ...
Either equities claim that human nature is perfect , needing no institutions to perfect it or they claim that it is corrupted by institutions , so that it can only be saved by separation from authority . Either way equities attack ...
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Equities hold a positive regret for memory as a claim of the past on the present that institutionalizes inequality . Why should some people be remembered , others forgotten ? Do not the masses make history ?
Equities hold a positive regret for memory as a claim of the past on the present that institutionalizes inequality . Why should some people be remembered , others forgotten ? Do not the masses make history ?
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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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