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Harvey Mansfield on Birthday

born 1932 United States

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The self is a simplification of the notion of soul, created to serve the purposes of the modern sciences of psychology and economics, both of which want you to be happy in a simple, straightforward way they can count.

How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harvey Mansfield (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.