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• The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be
• Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering…
• Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
• Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at…
• The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of…
• A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to…
• There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement,…
• Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the…
• [T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their…
• First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these…
• Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social…
• A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a…

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