The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of…

Walter Lippmann
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1959). The Public Philosophy
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