“Actions, then, are called just and temperate when they are such as the just or the temperate man would do; but it is not the man who does these that is just and temperate, but the man who also does them as just and temperate men do them. It is well said, then, that it is by …
“Look how he abused me and beat me, How he threw me down and robbed me.” Live with such thoughts and you will live in hate. “Look how he abused me and beat me, How he threw me down and robbed me.” Abandon such thoughts and live in love. In this world, hate never yet …
“Human beings are not at all like this [the Enlightenment picture]. We are far more socially constituted, far more historically situated, and far more changeable than objectivism allows. The self is defined not only be its biological makeup as a physical organism, but also by its ends, its interpersonal relationships, its cultural traditions, its institutional …
