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... suggested earlier , be one which required the discrimination of three distinct stages ; a first at which evaluative and more especially moral theory and practice embody genuine objective and impersonal standards which provide rational ...
... suggested earlier , be one which required the discrimination of three distinct stages ; a first at which evaluative and more especially moral theory and practice embody genuine objective and impersonal standards which provide rational ...
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... suggested , as I am now suggesting , that the roots of some of the problems which now engage the specialised attention of academic philosophers and the roots of some of the problems central to our everyday practical social and practical ...
... suggested , as I am now suggesting , that the roots of some of the problems which now engage the specialised attention of academic philosophers and the roots of some of the problems central to our everyday practical social and practical ...
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... suggested , some practices that is , some coherent human activities which answer to the description of what I have called a practice – are evil . So in discussions by some moral philosophers of this type of account of the virtues it has ...
... suggested , some practices that is , some coherent human activities which answer to the description of what I have called a practice – are evil . So in discussions by some moral philosophers of this type of account of the virtues it has ...
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