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Reading a book on any level beyond the elementary is essentially an effort on your part to ask it questions (and to answer them to the best of your ability) . That should never be forgotten. And that is why there is all the difference in the world between the demanding and the undemanding reader.
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler
A regulation-mad politics soon runs into the paradoxical phenomenon that the protected attack their protectors, but also – as the other side of the coin – defend their ‘exploiters’. Hence a ‘perverse’ coalition of ‘exploiters’ and ‘exploited’ may easily be convicted of solidarity in uncaring behaviour.
The Brave New World of Work
Ulrich Beck
Hayek falls short of his own potential insight, since he still conceives of economic organization in strictly instrumental terms—as a mere means for the pursuit of individual ends. __Questions of economic organization, however, are not reducible to the means with which we pursue our ends. Rather, how we organize the economy of our lives is itself an expression of how we posit the relation between means and ends.__
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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