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Yet what they see as good may not be so recognizable to us, and may well provoke in us the sense that life would not be worth living if their view was to prevail.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Yet what they see as good may not be so recognizable to us, and may well provoke in us the sense that life would not be…”
Editor's note · Context
Laski expresses concern that the rulers' vision of good may be so divergent from the people's that it could render life unlivable.
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