Tocqueville's Models of Law, Religion, and Democracy in America: Virtue, Interest, and the Duty to Rescue

Two thousand years ago a Jewish lawyer demanded a definition of the term "neighbor." … Whether the tale of the Samaritan answered his perplexities we cannot say. But he would surely have been astonished had he been informed that there were two answers to his question, one if he was asking...

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Main Author: Lennertz, James E. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1984
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 1984, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-84
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