while “freedom” from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimenta – Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

while “freedom” from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimenta – Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World.

…[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, …accomplishes… little… [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it

...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it

…[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, …accomplishes… little… [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it (Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals)