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This item shows signs of wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact, but may have aesthetic issues such as small tears, bends, scratches, and scuffs. Spine may also show signs of wear. Pages may include some notes and highlighting. May include "From the library of" labels. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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New. Philippe Beneton, professor of law and political science at the University of Rennes in France, has his eloquent complaints: ''Is it possible to imagine Seneca teaching wisdom to Lucilius via Internet, Heloise and Abelard exchanging faxes, or Pascal writing his 'Memorial' on a word processor? '' Beneton is no Luddite, however; nor is he a crotchety conservative content merely to complain about many of the conditions of life in ''late modernity. '' In a survey similar to Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind, Beneton seeks to identify the causes underlying phenomena as diverse as 24-hour ''news'' programming with its focus on the ever-present; the phenomena of polling, by which one is flattered and manipulated into joining opinion without prior reflection; and McDonald's, where a meal is ''a weak moment, a featureless act, a purely functional activity'' that has been thoroughly scripted through rationalistic planning. Beneton sees all of these as manifestations of ''equality by default''--an equality that is purely formal rather than based on any substantial truth about man. ''Man as sovereign no longer has an end specific to his nature; his rights are not defined by his human nature; instead, his very rights define him as human. '' In the modern world Beneton perceives, all humans are equal, not because they are equally engaged in discovering the art of living, but because each enjoys a right to do whatever he pleases.
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