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“Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.”

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Raymond Geuss
Raymond Geuss

Raymond Geuss is a renowned philosopher, born in 1946. His research focuses on political philosophy and moral philosophy, critically analyzing ideas such as liberalism, socialism, and Marxism. more

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