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1. M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 16:55:25 EDT M. Grégoire

   "The notion that there must exist final objective answers to normative questions, truths that can be demonstrated or directly intuited, that it is in principle possible to discover a harmonious pattern in which all values are reconciled, and that it is towards this unique goal that we must make;
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   1. M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2019 16:58:46 EDT M. Grégoire

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      that we can uncover some single central principle that shapes this vision, a principle which, once found, will govern our lives—this ancient and almost universal belief, on which so much traditional thought and action and philosophical doctrine rests, seems to me invalid, and at times to have led (and still to lead) to absurdities in theory and barbarous consequences in practice." — Sir Isaiah Berlin

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