If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an — Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern
If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an — Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern
If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an — Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern
If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an — Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern
If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an — Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern
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If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.

— Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-Modern
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