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The Perspective Of Eternity Is Not A Perspective From A Certain Place Beyond The World, Nor The Point Of View Of A Transcendent Being; Rather It Is A Certain Form Of Thought And Feeling That Rational Persons Can Adopt Within The World ... Purity Of Heart, If One Could Attain It, Would Be To See Clearly And To Act With Grace And Self-command From This Point Of View.

Any Comprehensive Doctrine, Religious Or Secular, Can Be Introduced Into Any Political Argument At Any Time, But I Argue That People Who Do This Should Also Present What They Believe Are Public Reasons For Their Argument. So Their Opinion Is No Longer Just That Of One Particular Party, But An Opinion That All Members Of A Society Might Reasonably Agree To, Not Necessarily That They Would Agree To. What's Important Is That People Give The Kinds Of Reasons That Can Be Understood And Appraised Apart From Their Particular Comprehensive Doctrines.

Man Is A Historical Being : The Realisations Of The Powers Of Human Individuals Living At Any One Time Takes The Cooperation Of Many Generations (or Even Societies) Over A Long Period Of Time. By Contrast With Humankind, Every Individual Animal Can And Does Do What For The Most Part It Might Do, Or What Any Other Of Its Kind Might Or Can Do That Lives At The Same Time.

The Extreme Nature Of Dominant-end Views Is Often Concealed By The Vagueness And Ambiguity Of The End Proposed.

Citizens Can Have Their Own Grounding In Their Comprehensive Doctrines, Whatever They Happen To Be.