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A Treasury of Mahāyāna Sūtras: Selections from the Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra - Page 399
by Chen-chi Chang - 1991 - 496 pages
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The Journal of Education, Volume 28; Volume 38

1906 - 888 pages
...Latin begin ? Although grammatical accuracy has become a fetish, and has been regarded not so much as a means to an end, but as an end in itself, no one will be so foolish as to urge that it is needless to learn Latin grammar. We have been ground...
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Historia Religionum, Volume 2 Religions of the Present

G. Widengren - 1971 - 740 pages
...Hrahwana-period, sacrifice was exalted so extravagantly that it had come to be regarded not merely as a means to an end but as an end in itself. Not only had sacrifice become the very pivot on which the entire communal life of the Vedic people...
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Standard Texts on the Social Market Economy: Two Centuries of Discussion

Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung - 1982 - 416 pages
...foment hate in the working community. It flows from the immense rapacity of those who view the economy not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself. It flows from the conceit of those who still fail to grasp that, in a modern economy, everyone is dependent...
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Restrictions on the Post-employment Activities of Federal Officers and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations - 1988 - 376 pages
...lobbying firm is practically unthinkable to the Japanese, mostly because civil service there is not viewed as a means to an end, but as an end in itself. In speaking against the Wolpe-Kaptur bill, many have argued that you can't legislate morality. The...
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Enterprise and Competitiveness: A Systems View of International Business

Mark Casson - 1990 - 250 pages
...is likely to cheat the other. It is possible, however, that cooperation could be pursued not merely as a means to an end, but as an end in itself. It was noted earlier that there is a moral dimension to preferences, so that, within limits, what individuals...
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Lexical Inferencing Procedures, Or, Talking about Words: Receptive ...

Kirsten Haastrup - 1991 - 256 pages
...implicit to explicit knowledge. The perspective below will be consciousness-raising and awareness, not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself. Several authors have proposed that "weiterlernen" become a learning objective in foreign language teaching...
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The Reason of Following: Christology and the Ecstatic I

Robert P. Scharlemann - 1991 - 246 pages
...— the imperative to recognize humanity, whether in my own person or in that of another, not merely as a means to an end but as an end in itself or, we might say, to recognize that no person is only an entity in a world but also a subjectivity...
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You Shall be a Blessing, Main Traits of a Relgious Humanism

Alexander Müller - 1992 - 143 pages
...those objects and living beings. In a spiritual sphere of thinking, the person sees an object not only as a means to an end, but as an end in itself, not utilitarian, but intentional. The perceptions are not aimless, but the person also does not dwell...
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War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age

Daniel Pick - 1996 - 308 pages
...self-serving motives. Like art as understood in so much nineteenth-century theory, war is not to be viewed as a means to an end, but as an end in itself. War, it is suggested, is capable of defining precisely what it is to be human, because it involves...
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The Craft of Art: Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance and ...

Georgia Museum of Art - 1995 - 262 pages
...unlike the Carracci, and like Parmigianino before him, this natural draftsman did not create drawings as a means to an end but as an end in itself. There is never a linear progression from compositional sketch to figure studies, to final painting...
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