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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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there is no such thing as human nature

[...] I think that the conservatives are wrong in thinking that we have either a truth-tracking faculty called 'reason' or a true self that education brings to consciousness. I think that the radicals are right in saying that if you take care of political, economic, cultural and academic freedom, t…

—p.117 Philosophy and Social Hope Education as Socialization and as Individualization (114) by Richard M. Rorty
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the authority of the American legal system

For Deweyans, the whole idea of 'authority' is suspect. We can still say, if we like, that the American legal system possesses a legitimate authority, and that we have an obligation to obey our country's laws. But we should not press either point. Dewey preferred to skip talk of 'authority', 'legit…

—p.111 Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban (104) by Richard M. Rorty
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ceteris paribus

this philosophical ignoramus could, ceteris paribus, be just as good a judge

—p.105 Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban (104) by Richard M. Rorty
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