To abjure the notion of the "truly human” is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world. (Richard Rorty)

To abjure the notion of the "truly human” is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Richard Rorty

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