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• Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that…
• equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring…
• To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single…
• Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the…
• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary…
• It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and naturally, hope there is no God. I don't want there to be…
• Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
• Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

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