“Ethics increases the range of what it is about ourselves that we can will—extending it from our…”
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“Ethics increases the range of what it is about ourselves that we can will—extending it from our actions to the motives and character traits and dispositions from which they arise. We want to be able to will the sources of our actions down to the very bottom.”

Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

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