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... limits on human activity , adherence to which guarantees human and humane exis- tence , success as a species and rejection of which consti- tutes failure . When expressed , these limits become the norms or values that shape and channel ...
... limits on human activity , adherence to which guarantees human and humane exis- tence , success as a species and rejection of which consti- tutes failure . When expressed , these limits become the norms or values that shape and channel ...
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... limits of what human beings must logically judge , in light of their core preferences , as justice . This outer limit is an equal or perhaps prior awareness of what is unjust . The traditional literature on this subject has been ...
... limits of what human beings must logically judge , in light of their core preferences , as justice . This outer limit is an equal or perhaps prior awareness of what is unjust . The traditional literature on this subject has been ...
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... limits of their existential experience . It is the interaction of individual choices , in ever - increasing affectation and intermingling , that will eventually constitute a species - wide effect . Hence , to claim individual or group ...
... limits of their existential experience . It is the interaction of individual choices , in ever - increasing affectation and intermingling , that will eventually constitute a species - wide effect . Hence , to claim individual or group ...
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The Query and the Quest | 5 |
The Philosophers Stone | 15 |
In Search of the Beast | 31 |
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