Identity is as foreign to science as the good, and just as the good is reduced to something palpable, one's own is raised to something vaguer but shareable. (Harvey Mansfield)

Identity is as foreign to science as the good, and just as the good is reduced to something palpable, one's own is raised to something vaguer but shareable.

Harvey Mansfield

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