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The store of wisdom does not consist
of hard coins which keep their shape
as they pass from hand to hand;
it consists of ideas and doctrines
whose meanings change
with the minds that entertain them.


John Plamenatz

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John Plamenatz

John Plamenatz

Born: May 16, 1912
Died: February 19, 1975 (aged 62)
Bio: John Petrov Plamenatz born as Jovan Petrov Plamenac, was a political philosopher, who spent most of his academic life at the University of Oxford. He is well known for his analysis of political obligation and his theory of democracy.
Known for:
  1. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau
  2. Ideology (1970)
  3. Man and Society (1963)
  4. Consent, freedom and political obligation (1938)

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