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Asserting the impossibility of absolute standards removes any very compelling check on the choice of means to an end , thus encouraging a practice that usually needs little encouraging anyhow - justifying the means by the end .
Asserting the impossibility of absolute standards removes any very compelling check on the choice of means to an end , thus encouraging a practice that usually needs little encouraging anyhow - justifying the means by the end .
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siderations , more and more progressives had come to argue , are relative to time , circumstance , and the goal you want to reach ; the test of a means is whether it achieves the end that is sought ; the end , in short , justifies the ...
siderations , more and more progressives had come to argue , are relative to time , circumstance , and the goal you want to reach ; the test of a means is whether it achieves the end that is sought ; the end , in short , justifies the ...
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CThe casualness about means - was probably plainest in the general liberal unconcern over ordinary problems of political morality . ) Kemler was right when he categorized New Deal reformism as a movement that had relegated political sin ...
CThe casualness about means - was probably plainest in the general liberal unconcern over ordinary problems of political morality . ) Kemler was right when he categorized New Deal reformism as a movement that had relegated political sin ...
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