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Thursday, February 24, 2022

Hope for a presently unimaginably better human future

"The view that I am offering in these lectures is anti-universalistic, in the sense that it discourages attempts to formulate generalizations which cover all possible forms of human existence. Hope for a presently unimaginably better human future is hope that no generalization we can presently formulate will be adequate to cover that future."

RR, PAA: https://a.co/b0yjLkn

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