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stultifying (en)

ridiculous, foolish

Philosophy and Social Hope
by Richard M. Rorty

Philosophy and Social Hope
by Richard M. Rorty

Philosophy and Social Hope
by Richard M. Rorty


The idea that we have a moral duty to correspond to reality is, for Nietzsche andJames, as stultifYing as the idea that the whole duty of man is to please God.

—p.269 Afterword (262) by Richard M. Rorty
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