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...19th century, insulated from the world by an outer leather armor he had devised. It is an awkward tale that works only intellectually, as an argument the author is having with himself. Is it possible that a life can be understood only when one has deliberately estranged oneself from it, turned oneself into an outsider, a leather...
...serious humiliations in a long time." Writing in Liberation, a leftist newspaper, the respected commentator Serge July observed: "The worst in this kind of affair is that everyone expects Mitterrand to be duped, and in the end he is duped. You can't believe your eyes. One asks oneself if there is not something suicidal in Mitterrand's behavior." The barrage of criticism did little to improve Mitterrand's sagging popularity ratings, which had already dropped to 26%, the lowest for any French President since the Fifth Republic was founded...
...event in the transition from therapy to experiment. It turns what would otherwise be technological barbarism into humane science. Consent suspends the Hippocratic injunction "First, do no harm." Moreover, it redeems not only the researcher but the researched. To be used by others is to be degraded; to give oneself to others is to be elevated. Indeed, consciously to make one's life the instrument of some higher purpose is the essence of the idea of service. If Barney Clark decides to dedicate his last days to the service of humanity, then-and only then-may we operate...
...looks at oneself inevitably has a bearing on which of 'us' one plugs into the equation. Montaigne, the skeptical hero of this book, was the most hesitant of pluggers-in; a true plodder. But it is to him that Shklar turns. It is in our wrongdoings--essentially in our response to what we are--that Shklar finds the right clues to the answer we call government; to the question of what we ought...
...think that the use of fear to inspire what is thought to be moral conduct can only have the effect of producing the grossest deformities of character associated with fear: servility, and the tendency to pass on the pain suffered oneself to those beneath one who look weaker. There is no insurance system for moral conduct. But there are things known to fail...