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Idolatry of truth versus idolatry of obscurity
2021Se faire une idole de la vérité ? La formule du fragment 755 des Pensées est suffisamment paradoxale et scandaleuse pour avoir retenu la critique pascalienne. La présente étude fait le point sur les diverses interprétations proposées, et s’attarde sur la deuxième partie de la pensée où, à une idolâtrie de la vérité est comparée une idolâtrie de l ...
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2002
AbstractNot all devotion to good things is good. Under the heading of idolatry, this chapter offers a partial anatomy of good motives gone bad. This subject is discussed (1) in relation to priorities and excessively consuming passions, (2) in relation to inappropriate “needs” and the sense that life would not be worth living without particular finite ...
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AbstractNot all devotion to good things is good. Under the heading of idolatry, this chapter offers a partial anatomy of good motives gone bad. This subject is discussed (1) in relation to priorities and excessively consuming passions, (2) in relation to inappropriate “needs” and the sense that life would not be worth living without particular finite ...
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Idolatry and Constitutional Change
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020Constitutional ‘moments’, as forms of higher law-making that operate beyond the realm of ordinary politics, are inescapably linked with constitutional idolatry. The idea that a moment should be something more than a necessary, ordinary, and practical change in response to events; that a moment is something special, exceptional, even trans-formative in ...
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2018
The use of material images of various gods (idols) in religious worship has a long history and a central place in the polytheistic religions of the ancient world. The worship of these gods is strictly prohibited in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This practice is generally referred to as idolatry. In addition, the making of images of the one God along
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The use of material images of various gods (idols) in religious worship has a long history and a central place in the polytheistic religions of the ancient world. The worship of these gods is strictly prohibited in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This practice is generally referred to as idolatry. In addition, the making of images of the one God along
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1990
Abstract After he [Chaplin] had made his first million dollars, he went to Europe for a vacation. He slipped away from a Parisian hotel to wander incognito in an obscure district on the Left Bank. No one recognized him. He was happy. After all, there was some privacy, if one had the patience to seek it. As he strolled along, Mr.
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Abstract After he [Chaplin] had made his first million dollars, he went to Europe for a vacation. He slipped away from a Parisian hotel to wander incognito in an obscure district on the Left Bank. No one recognized him. He was happy. After all, there was some privacy, if one had the patience to seek it. As he strolled along, Mr.
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2001
Abstract Can a nation‐state survive without a sense of identity that is religious and thus transcends the passage of time? A secular society is agnostic about the boundaries between the real and the unreal, the imaginable and the unimaginable, and the possible and the impossible because it is radically open to its environment.
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Abstract Can a nation‐state survive without a sense of identity that is religious and thus transcends the passage of time? A secular society is agnostic about the boundaries between the real and the unreal, the imaginable and the unimaginable, and the possible and the impossible because it is radically open to its environment.
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