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Chapter four: Moral and Political Evasions ( Read more... )

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Chapter Four: Moral and Political Evasions
I.: The doctrine of needs
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The doctrine of needs in the hands of psychologists and social workers is somewhat modified: if we are unhappy (and especially if we constitute a social problem), then the cause must lie in the frustration of some need whilst we were children.

( People can be encouraged or taught to satisfy-indeed to develop-needs in a required manner. )

Chapter three: Ethics and Politics
II.: The Illusion of Ultimate Agreement
...Any given situation only presents a problem to people of a certain character. One man's problem is another man's solution, and many social problems only arise because in some way they are solutions.
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( The other point in the slogan of “first security and then culture” is a mistake of fact. )

Chapter three: Ethics and Politics

● II.: The Illusion of Ultimate Agreement

...The most naïve and dangerous individual in politics is the idealist who imagines that he is using others and moving towards his ideals and values. The first step to political wisdom is to realize that one is not only using others, but being used by them, and to try to ( Read more... )

Chapter three: Ethics and Politics
I.: Moral experience
...There are some people in the world who are virtually immobilized because every decision they have to make turns into a moral problem; and there are also others, called psychopaths, for whom nothing at all presents a moral problem.

...It also appears to be a common experience that duties ( Read more... )

Chapter Two: The Anatomy of Liberalism ( Read more... )

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