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struggle4progress

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Sun Jun-04-06 12:11 AM
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12. Abstractions are useless, if they do not illuminate concrete situations.

Actions are reveal rather more of personal beliefs than long verbal productions. And, as far as I can discern, philosophy tends to shed more light on the limitations of philosophy, than on anything else.

I do not think that the story of Dr. Langman is essentially a story "about personal courage in the face of danger" but rather a story about a certain sort of religious conviction, which has nothing whatsoever to do with abstract concepts, although it does have to do with truth and perhaps personal belief systems.

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