The face of God book pdf download

Number of Pages : 159
Section : Philosophy and logic
book quality : Excellent
Auther : Roger Scruton
Language : English
Department : Social sciences
Size of file : 4.50MB
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10

Author: Roger Scruton

About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts the claim that there is no meaning or purpose in the natural world, and argues that the sacred and the transcendental are ‘real presences’, through which human beings come to know themselves and to find both their freedom and their redemption. In the human face we find a paradigm of meaning. And from this experience, Scruton argues, we both construct the face of the world, and address the face of God. We find in the face both the proof of our freedom and the mark of self-consciousness. One of the motivations of the atheist culture is to escape from the eye of judgement. You escape from the eye of judgement by blotting out the face: and this, Scruton argues, is the most disturbing aspect of the times in which we live. In his wide-ranging argument Scruton explains the growing sense of destruction that we feel, as the habits of pleasure seeking and consumerism deface the world. His book defends a consecrated world against the habit of desecration, and offers a vision of the religious way of life in a time of trial.

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Guida filosofica per tipi intelligenti book pdf download

Language : Italian
Auther : Roger Scruton
Number of Pages : 160
Department : Social sciences
Size of file : 2.92MB
Section : Philosophy and logic
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
book quality : Excellent

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About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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È almeno dai tempi di Socrate che il filosofo non conosce tabù. Ma, sostiene Roger Scruton, come disciplina accademica la filosofia ha troppo spesso tradito le proprie origini, oscillando tra gli estremi di uno specialismo esasperato o di una vaghezza mascherata da un linguaggio apparentemente profondo ed evocativo. Scruton, invece, non ama le chiusure accademiche, gli atteggiamenti oracolari, le censure del politicamente corretto. L’audacia intellettuale dovrebbe sempre andare di pari passo con la chiarezza espositiva e con l’attenzione ai problemi della gente comune. A lungo la filosofia è stata tenuta separata dai desideri, dalle paure e dalle speranze degli uomini e delle donne in carne e ossa. Lo scopo di questo libro è di “riconciliarla con la vita”

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The Meaning of Conservatism book pdf download

Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Auther : Roger Scruton
Department : Social sciences
Number of Pages : 216
book quality : Excellent
Language : English
Section : Philosophy and logic
Size of file : 21.3MB

Author: Roger Scruton

About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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This is a major contribution to political thought from conservatism’s greatest contemporary proponent. Originally published in Britain in 1980 and revised in 1984, this edition – the first ever in the United States – is a major rewriting of the work. Scruton’s idea of conservatism – what in America we tend to call “paleo-conservatism” – might well shock the sensibilities of those American conservatives” who view it as little more than the workings of the free market. Conservatism, says Scruton, is neither automatic hostility toward the state nor the desire to limit the state’s obligations toward the citizen. Rather, conservatism regards the individual not as the premise but the conclusion of politics, a politics that is fundamentally opposed to the ethic of social justice, to equality of station, income, and achievement, or to the attempt to bring major institutions of society (such as schools and universities) under government control. The conservative outlook, says Scruton, is neither outmoded nor irrational. On the contrary, it is the most reasonable of political alternatives. The evils of socialism, he maintains, lie precisely where its supporters find its strengths, and the conditions for the credibility of socialism have long since disappeared. Neither socialism nor liberalism can come to terms with the real complexity of human society, and both appear plausible only because they direct attention away from what is actual, toward what is merely ideal.

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Σπινόζα book pdf download

Number of Pages : 145
Department : Social sciences
Section : Philosophy and logic
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Auther : Roger Scruton
Size of file : 0.41MB
book quality : Excellent
Language : book.Greek

Author: Roger Scruton

About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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Πατέρας του Διαφωτισμού και ο τελευταίος φύλακας του μεσαιωνικού κόσμου, ο Σπινόζα έκανε μια λαμπρή προσπάθεια να συμβιβάσει τις αντικρουόμενες ηθικές και πνευματικές απαιτήσεις της εποχής του και να παρουσιάσει ένα όραμα του ανθρώπου ως ταυτόχρονα δεσμευμένου από την ανάγκη και αιώνια ελεύθερου. Εξοστρακισμένος από την εβραϊκή κοινότητα του Άμστερνταμ στην οποία γεννήθηκε, ο Σπινόζα ανέπτυξε μια πολιτική φιλοσοφία που είχε ως στόχο να δικαιολογήσει το κοσμικό κράτος που διέπεται από ένα φιλελεύθερο σύνταγμα και μια μεταφυσική που προσπαθούσε να συμβιβάσει την ανθρώπινη ελευθερία με την πίστη στην επιστημονική εξήγηση. Εδώ, ο Roger Scruton παρουσιάζει μια σαφή και συστηματική ανάλυση της σκέψης του Σπινόζα και δείχνει τη συνάφειά της με τις σημερινές πνευματικές ενασχολήσεις.

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Tolos, fraudes e militantes: pensadores da Nova esquerda book pdf download

Language : Portuguese
Size of file : 3.54MB
Number of Pages : 330
Auther : Roger Scruton
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Department : Social sciences
Section : Philosophy and logic
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About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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Neste livro, o filósofo britânico Roger Scruton analisa a obra de catorze intelectuais da chamada Nova Esquerda. São eles: E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, Michel Foucault, R. D. Laing, Raymond Williams, Rudolf Bahro, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Immanuel Wallerstein, Jürgen Habermas, Perry Anderson, György Lukács, J. K. Galbraith e Jean-Paul Sartre. Antes de tratar destes autores individualmente, Scruton procura esclarecer o que é a esquerda e por que escolheu abordar estes autores. Ao final, ele também explicita a perspectiva subjacente a suas análises, de maneira a deixar claro de que ponto de vista partem as críticas feitas.

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The Ring of Truth book pdf download

Section : Philosophy and logic
book quality : Excellent
Size of file : 15.2MB
Number of Pages : 257
Language : English
Department : Social sciences
Auther : Roger Scruton
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10

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About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner’s masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger Scruton brings to it in this inspiring account. The Ring of Truth is an exploration of the drama, music, symbolism and philosophy of the Ring from a writer whose knowledge and understanding of the Western musical tradition are the equal of his capacities as a philosopher. Scruton shows how, through musical connections and brilliant dramatic strokes, Wagner is able to express truths about the human condition which few other creative artists have been able to convey so convincingly. For Wagner, writes Scruton, the task of art is to ‘show us freedom in its immediate, contingent, human form, reminding us of what it means to us. Even if we live in a world from which gods and heroes have disappeared we can, by imagining them, dramatize the deep truths of our condition and renew our faith in what we are.’ Love, death, sacrifice and the liberation that we win through sacrifice – these are the great themes of the Ring, as they are of this book. Scruton’s passionate and moving interpretation allows us to understand more fully than ever how Wagner conveys his ideas about who we are, and why the Ring continues to be such a hypnotically absorbing work.

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On Human Nature book pdf download

Section : Philosophy and logic
Size of file : 0.43MB
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
book quality : Excellent
Number of Pages : 159
Auther : Roger Scruton
Language : English
Department : Social sciences

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About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. Our world is a shared world, exhibiting freedom, value, and accountability, and to understand it we must address other people face to face and I to I. Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averroës to Darwin and Wittgenstein. The book begins with Kant’s suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say “I”–by our sense of ourselves as the centers of self-conscious reflection. This fact is manifested in our emotions, interests, and relations. It is the foundation of the moral sense, as well as of the aesthetic and religious conceptions through which we shape the human world and endow it with meaning. And it lies outside the scope of modern materialist philosophy, even though it is a natural and not a supernatural fact. Ultimately, Scruton offers a new way of understanding how self-consciousness affects the question of how we should live. The result is a rich view of human nature that challenges some of today’s most fashionable ideas about our species.

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A Alma do Mundo book pdf download

Size of file : 1.47MB
Auther : Roger Scruton
Section : Philosophy and logic
Number of Pages : 292
Language : Portuguese
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
book quality : Excellent
Department : Social sciences

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About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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A experiência do sagrado contra o ataque dos ateísmos contemporâneos. Do autor de Como ser um conservador O renomado filósofo Roger Scruton argumenta que nossos relacionamentos pessoais, intuições morais e julgamentos estéticos implicam na existência de uma dimensão transcendental que não pode ser completamente compreendida pelo olhar da ciência. Em vez de apresentar uma defesa da existência de Deus, ou da verdade da religião, o que o autor propõe neste livro é uma reflexão sobre por que o sentimento do sagrado é essencial à vida humana, e o que a perda dele pode significar. Ao analisar arte, arquitetura, música e literatura, Scruton sugere que as formas mais puras da experiência e da expressão humana contam a história da nossa necessidade do sagrado, e que esta busca dá ao mundo uma alma. A alma do mundo conclui, portanto, que, mesmo com o papel cada vez menor do sagrado no mundo contemporâneo, os caminhos à transcendência permanecem abertos.

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Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Department : Social sciences
Number of Pages : 292
Auther : Roger Scruton
Section : Philosophy and logic
Language : Portuguese
Size of file : 2.44MB
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About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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O meio ambiente tem sido há muito tempo território da esquerda política, a qual considera que as principais ameaças ao planeta partem do capitalismo, do consumismo e da exploração exagerada de recursos naturais. Em Filosofia Verde, Roger Scruton aponta as falácias por trás desse modo de pensar, assim como os perigos que ele representa para os ecossistemas dos quais todos nós dependemos. Scruton sustenta que o meio ambiente é o problema político mais urgente de nossa época, e estabelece os princípios que deveriam governar nossos esforços para protegê-lo.

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As Vantagens do Pessimismo: E o perigo da falsa esperança book pdf download

Auther : Roger Scruton
Department : Social sciences
Date of Coming : 2022-08-10
Number of Pages : 296
Size of file : 1.53MB
Language : Portuguese
Section : Philosophy and logic
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About the Author: Roger Scruton who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was a philosopher and a controversial public intellectual. Active in the fields of aesthetics, art, music, political philosophy and architecture, both inside and outside the academic world, he dedicated himself to nurturing beauty, “re-enchanting the world” and giving intellectual rigour to conservatism. He wrote more than 50 books, including perceptive works on Spinoza, Kant, Wittgenstein and the history of philosophy, and four novels, as well as columns on wine, hunting and current affairs, and was a talented pianist and composer. A member of the traditionalist-conservative Salisbury Group, he helped found the Salisbury Review, which he edited from 1982 to 2001. This quarterly, which was circulated in the Soviet bloc, often in samizdat form, was criticised in Britain for having retrograde attitudes. In 1984 it defended Ray Honeyford, the Bradford headteacher who had disputed the value of multicultural education. Consequent hostility from colleagues prompted Scruton to abandon in 1992 his professorship in aesthetics at what is now Birkbeck, University of London, where he had started as a lecturer in 1971. Though he felt this had scuppered his academic career, in the event it freed him for activities and adventures on a wider stage.

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Utilizando uma argumentação provocadora e apaixonada, Scruton defende nesse livro a ideia de que o maior perigo e a maior ameaça vieram sempre dos que defenderam o idealismo e o otimismo, fossem eles de esquerda ou de direita. E que chegou o momento de substituir a exuberância irracional pelo pessimismo humano. Scruton demonstra que as tragédias e os desastres da história europeia foram consequência do falso otimismo e dos raciocínios enganosos que daí derivam. Enquanto rejeita tais raciocínios, constrói uma forte defesa tanto da sociedade civil como da liberdade, mostrando que o verdadeiro legado civilizacional não é o falso idealismo que, junto com o fascismo, o nazismo e o comunismo, quase nos destruiu. Deve-se, isso sim, proteger a cultura do perdão e da ironia. As vantagens do pessimismo é um convincente argumento em favor da razão e da responsabilidade, escrito numa época de profundas mudanças políticas e sociais.

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