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Kenneth Minogue

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Kenneth Minogue was a prominent political theorist and scholar, known for his extensive research on liberal and democratic theories. Born on September 11, 1930, and passing away on June 29, 2013, Minogue's works have had a profound impact on contemporary political philosophy.

Politics: A Very Short Introduction

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“Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.”

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“Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.”

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“Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.”

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“If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.”

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“Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.”

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“Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.”

People Ifs Capitalism

Author:Kenneth Minogue

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Born: September 11, 1930
Died: June 29, 2013
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