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Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contempo...

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The Golden Rule is intolerable; if millions did to others whatever they wished others to do to them,...

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Without Guilt and Justice: From Decidophobia to Autonomy

Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this rel...

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The Faith of a Heretic

One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Simil...

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Those who loved with all their heart and mind and might have always thought of death, and those who ...

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Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command a...

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Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap ...

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Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lac...

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Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)

Philosopher

Born: 1921-07-01

Died: 1980-09-04

Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1 July 1921 – 4 September 1980) was a German-American philosopher, translator, and poet, most famous as a translator and scholar of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche.More