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National Pride Is To Countries What Self-respect Is To Individuals: A Necessary Condition For Self-improvement.

Truthfulness Under Oath Is, By Now, A Matter Of Our Civic Religion, Our Relation To Our Fellow Citizens Rather Than Our Relation To A Nonhuman Power.

Philosophers Get Attention Only When They Appear To Be Doing Something Sinister - Corrupting The Youth, Undermining The Foundations Of Civilization, Sneering At All We Hold Dear. The Rest Of The Time Everybody Assumes That They Are Hard At Work Somewhere Down In The Sub-basement, Keeping Those Foundations In Good Repair. Nobody Much Cares What Brand Of Intellectual Duct Tape Is Being Used.

What Counts As Rational Argumentation Is As Historically Determined And As Context-dependent, As What Counts As Good French.

At 12, I Knew That The Point Of Being Human Was To Spend One's Life Fighting Social Injustice.