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“I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.”

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Torbjorn Tannsjo
Torbjorn Tannsjo

Torbjorn Tannsjo, born in 1946, is an individual whose profession and category are unknown. more

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