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... myth - making ceremonies.227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin228 describes as contempo- rary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
... myth - making ceremonies.227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin228 describes as contempo- rary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
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... myth , was applied to the unique human performance of suffering pain . One approach to pain was , however , unthinkable , at least in the European tradition : the belief that pain ought not to be suffered , alleviated , and inter ...
... myth , was applied to the unique human performance of suffering pain . One approach to pain was , however , unthinkable , at least in the European tradition : the belief that pain ought not to be suffered , alleviated , and inter ...
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... mythological conjecture and has become a real contingency . Instead of being due to the will of God , or man's guilt ... myth of progress of all people towards the same kind of death diminishes the feeling of guilt on the part of the ...
... mythological conjecture and has become a real contingency . Instead of being due to the will of God , or man's guilt ... myth of progress of all people towards the same kind of death diminishes the feeling of guilt on the part of the ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Epidemics of Modern Medicine | 13 |
The Medicalization of Life 393 | 41 |
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