William L Ingram

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promises no communal purpose or communal capacity; it focuses almost entirely on the individual, but leaves individuals without any guide other than the guide within. Furthermore, Sartre’s belief in an unfixed human nature opens the door to utopian schemes of all sorts—if we can merely change the system, as Marx argued, perhaps the New Man will arrive, cloaked in glory.
The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
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