civil society

death

is concerned with the problematic relation between individual passions and private concerns.

What was common to all attempts to articulate a notion of civil society was the problematic relation between the private and the public, the individual and the social, public ethics and individual interests, individual passions and private concerns. (Seligman 1992:5) (p. 92)

is more universal than life in that while everyone dies, not everyone lives.

Death is more universal than life... everyone dies but not everyone lives.

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