"The thing that attracted me about philosophy was that it went straight to essentials. I had never liked fiddling detail; I perceived the general signi...
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
~ Simone de Beauvoir ~
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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