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In all the aforementioned avenues of mutation, from the Church to denominations, from fideism to empiricism, from religious to ethnic loyalties, from inequality and obedience to equality and self-assertion, and also from muscles to machines, there has been the underlying desire for wider scope for human self-determination, for more freedom to pursue one’s own aims and more power to achieve them.
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Krejčí, J. (1993). Present Alternatives. In: The Human Predicament: Its Changing Image. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22523-1_12
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