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Quote by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

“La mort, mon fils, est un bien pour tous les hommes; elle est la nuit de ce jour inquiet qu'on appelle la vie. Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life.”

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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a French writer renowned for his novel 'Paul et Virginie', published in 1788. Born on January 19, 1737, in Brittany, France, and died on January 21, 1814. His work is a significant example of the 'oriental tale' genre in French literature, blending romanticism and the exotic. more

“Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational.”

Men May Values Choices Views Acting Particular Conscience Commitment Rational Agents Consistently Stance Evaluation Weber

Author:Alasdair MacIntyre

“I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.”

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Book:After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”