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Concept

The state as a body

The state is man-made: an artificial organism that lives on taxation, its food, and on legitimacy, the air it breathes. Its institutions are its organs.

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Peace

Medical Approach to Peace: An Introduction

For centuries,rational minds have enquired what is peace? Why is it fleeting? And what must philosophers do to keep it permanent and universal?

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