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“All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.”
“At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.”
“The introduction of the word intuition by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.”
“The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.”
“It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way i...”
“Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean p...”