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... example - that accomplish not merely results , but results which have an ultimate value . This does not mean , as some are already suggest- ing , that we have reason to return with a new enthu- siasm to metaphysics . The fact that ...
... example - that accomplish not merely results , but results which have an ultimate value . This does not mean , as some are already suggest- ing , that we have reason to return with a new enthu- siasm to metaphysics . The fact that ...
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... example , they would not be , like us , inclined to think of love as the chief source of virtue or the chief reward of fortitude . Nor do we need , in order to get some faint idea how love might come to be less for us than it was for ...
... example , they would not be , like us , inclined to think of love as the chief source of virtue or the chief reward of fortitude . Nor do we need , in order to get some faint idea how love might come to be less for us than it was for ...
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... example , D. H. Lawrence , T. S. Eliot , or James Joyce - one will find both explicitly and implicitly a similar sense that the transcendental value of love has become somehow attenuated , and that , to take a perfectly concrete example ...
... example , D. H. Lawrence , T. S. Eliot , or James Joyce - one will find both explicitly and implicitly a similar sense that the transcendental value of love has become somehow attenuated , and that , to take a perfectly concrete example ...
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