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Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

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Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

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Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.

Reinhard Bendix

Reinhard Bendix

Reinhard Bendix

Born: February 25, 1916

Died: February 28, 1991 (aged 75)

Bio: Reinhard Bendix was a German American sociologist.

Known for:

Nation-Building and Citizenship (1964)
Work and authority in industry (1956)
From Berlin to Berkeley (1986)
Embattled reason (1970)

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