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Contentment in Contention
Acceptance Versus Aspiration
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01 January 2012
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Contentment in Contention
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Description
Southgate draws on ideas within history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and theology to explore two traditions: contentment with our situation as it is, and the aspiration to transcend it. He discusses the possibility ofescape from intellectual constraints, and advocates a positive 'duty of discontent', and its implications.