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Nature, History and Morality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Shirley Robin Letwin
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The question that I propose to consider is the ghost in modern philosophy. Its step has been heard more distinctly at some times than at others. But it has never rattled its chains so loudly as during the recent popularity of Existentialism. The question is: How is man related to the universe? All philosophers who pride themselves on being modern reject the ancient answer to the question. The most emancipated modern philosophers refuse to hear the question. Nevertheless some answer to this question is presupposed by all philosophy.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 8: Nature and Conduct , March 1974 , pp. 229 - 250
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1974

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