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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...there. Consider taxpayers and their government. Contrary to conservative lore, the former want the government to tax them providing they share in t... ...l those of established hierarchies and institutions ("dual power"). Gradually, the former will replace the latter. The evolution of certain non-gov... ...anger. But so are threats to one's affiliates, nearest, dearest, nation, favourite football club, pet and so on. The territory of anger is enlarged... ...ei" ("city air liberates" - the sign above the gates of the cities of the Hanseatic League)? This is the eternal tension between the individual and ... ...ncorporates Locke's view of humans as possessing an ontological status similar to "clubs" or "nations" - their personal identity consists of a vari... ... entrenched a taboo as cannibalism. Yet, it is better to eat the flesh of your dead football team mates than perish high up on the Andes (a harrowin... ... him derision and diatribe aplenty. Clearly, a child of the repressed sexuality of Victorian times and the Viennese middle- class, he was fascinated... ... "defective" (naturally castrated and inferior) men. Scholars of culture expose the Victorian and middle-class roots of his theories about suppresse...

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