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“I am arguing that if we are to have values at all we must accept the ultimate platitudes of Practical Reason as having absolute validity: that any attempt, having become sceptical about these, to reintroduce value lower down on some supposedly more ‘realistic’ basis, is doomed.”
“The rebellion of new ideologies against [objective value and reality] is a rebellion of the branches against the tree…”
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“The rebellion of new ideologies against [objective value and reality] is a rebellion of the branches against the tree…”
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Darryl Friesen
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Every. Single. Educator. needs to read this book. Grade school, and ESPECIALLY post-secondary, educators. It’s shocking…
“And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible….In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.”
— Dec 28, 2025 07:55AM
“And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible….In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.”
