A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of …

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A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery. ✨ C. S. LEWIS (1947). THE ABOLITION OF MAN
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