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adj. - Tending to set free.

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  • It is an ideal still taught to its victims as "common sense" as opposed to the much more emancipative approach of ethno-historical consciousness and self-awareness.
  • What is of supreme importance is that in cultivating his critical faculty with an almost intensive culture, while they starve, or at any rate leave untended, his more vital and...
  • This means that they are training their imaginative sympathy, -- a sovereign faculty which of all faculties is perhaps the most emancipative and expansive, -- and...
  • Wealth tends to produce a syndrome of 'self-expressive' or 'emancipative' values that includes a stronger sense of individuality and greater tolerance for diversity. "
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