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Building ethics around the question of merit is unrealistic
Drawn from what William James said
What William James actually said
- William James American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910)
To make our human ethics revolve about the question of 'merit' is a piteous unreality—God alone can know our merits, if we have any.
Where this was said
↗Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)gutenberg.org
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