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The burden of office, ethics and connoisseurship
Author(s) -
Paquet Gilles
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
canadian public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.361
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1754-7121
pISSN - 0008-4840
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-7121.1997.tb01496.x
Subject(s) - civilization , ceremony , face (sociological concept) , state (computer science) , political science , sociology , environmental ethics , aesthetics , psychology , law and economics , law , philosophy , social science , computer science , theology , algorithm
Civilization is an achievement in the face of difficulties, a precarious achievement. It is the state of mind of the magician who tremblingly invokes the powers he would use, knowing that if he gets the ceremony wrong what he invokes will destroy him .— Joseph Tussman