Harvey Mansfield Quote

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)


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...

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...

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...

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...