May 22, 2006

Old exercise

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006 (US Ambassador to India, 1961-63)
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"There are no moral phenomena . . . only moral explanations of phenomena."

Nietzsche

May 22, 2006 8:17 PM
Anonymous said...

Good one.

May 23, 2006 2:43 AM
This was once a regular blog but, after six said...

Nice! I think I may use this someday.

May 23, 2006 5:39 PM

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