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The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

Book by Ben Shapiro · 1 quotes · Moral Purpose, Reason, Western Civilization

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“Finally, we must believe that we are pursuing true goals - not merely effective ones. Darwinian evolution leaves no room for the true; it only leaves room for the evolutionarily beneficial. Survival of the fittest isn't a moral principle; survival itself isn't a moral proposition. If it were beneficial to us to kill babies and eat them, that would not make it moral; if it were beneficial for us to calculate 2+2=5, it would not make it true. But we care about both moral and true, and that requires a base line assumption: that we can discover the moral and true.”

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