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abstract actual Africa alienation Anaguta anthropologist appears archaic aspects assumed become behavior believe called character civilization colonial conceived conception concerned condition consciousness considered course created critical culture custom defined definition developed direct economic effort emerging established European example existence experience expression fact finally follows function further human idea imperial individual inevitable institutions interests labor language less Levi-Strauss living logical major Marx Marxism matter meaning merely mind Moreover myth nature never Nigeria object observation organization origins particular past peasant perhaps person Plato political position possible primitive society problem progress question rationalized reality reason reduced reference reflected remains represent Republic response result ritual rule seems sense social structure symbolic things traditional turn ultimate understand universal Western York
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144 ページ - ... in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
184 ページ - Citizens, we shall say to them in our tale, you are brothers, yet God has framed you differently. Some of you have the power of command, and in the composition of these he has mingled gold, wherefore also they have the greatest honor; others he has made of silver, to be auxiliaries; others again who are to be husbandmen and craftsmen he has composed of brass and iron; and the species will generally be preserved in the children.
184 ページ - They should observe what elements mingle in their offspring; for if the son of a golden or silver parent has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks, and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful towards...
186 ページ - They are to be told that their youth was a dream, and the education and training which they received from us, an appearance only; in reality during all that time they were being formed and fed in the womb of the earth...
185 ページ - ... the greatest possible care that no mother recognizes her own child ; and other wet-nurses may be engaged if more are required. Care will also be taken that the process of suckling shall not be protracted too long; and the mothers will have no getting up at night or other trouble, but will hand over all this sort of thing to the nurses and attendants.
184 ページ - But as all are of the same original stock, a golden parent will sometimes have a silver son, or a silver parent a golden son.
146 ページ - In the white way of doing things, the family is not so important. The police and soldiers take care of protecting you, the courts give you justice, the post office carries messages for you, the school teaches you. Everything is taken care of, even your children, if you die; but with us the family must do all of that.
148 ページ - Discourses on qualities without connection with the object 'to which the qualities belong, or of activities or states disconnected from the idea of the actor or the subject being in a certain state, will hardly occur in primitive speech. Thus the Indian will not speak of goodness as such, although he may very well speak of the goodness of a person. He will not speak of a state of bliss apart from the person who is in such a state. He will not refer to the power of seeing without designating an individual...
174 ページ - As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic: the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and re-birth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.
101 ページ - Physics explains in some way the mechanism of the senses and the formation of ideas; but in the power of willing, or rather of choosing, and in the sentiment of this power are found only purely spiritual acts about which the Laws of Mechanics explain nothing.