“Value judgments of processes such as these create huge smoke screens. Even the most irrelevant and fatuous categories can muster the appearance of plausibility. Rigidity of stance or point-of-view creates a habit of moral valuation devoid of all the intellectual satisfactions of comprehension”.
Letter to the Editor, New Society, March 1970, in Letters (1987), p 403
Year: 1970
Chapter:
Values & Value Judgments
Compiled by William Kuhns
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