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... myth - making ceremonies.2 227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin228 de- scribes as contemporary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
... myth - making ceremonies.2 227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin228 de- scribes as contemporary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
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... myth according to which technical progress demands the solution of human problems by the application of scientific principles , the myth of benefit through an increase in the specialization of labor , through multiplication of arcane ...
... myth according to which technical progress demands the solution of human problems by the application of scientific principles , the myth of benefit through an increase in the specialization of labor , through multiplication of arcane ...
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... myth has fulfilled the function of setting limits to the materialization of greedy , envious , mur- derous dreams . Myth assured the common man of his safety on this third frontier if he kept within its bounds . Myth guaranteed disaster ...
... myth has fulfilled the function of setting limits to the materialization of greedy , envious , mur- derous dreams . Myth assured the common man of his safety on this third frontier if he kept within its bounds . Myth guaranteed disaster ...
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The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 31 |
Introduction | 121 |
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