"As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philos...
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
~ Simone de Beauvoir ~
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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