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Roberto Mangabeira Unger - There is no permanent canon...
There is no permanent canon of forms of normative argument. Our ways of arguing about ideals are, like our other practices, the mutable products of a specific history and the expressions of our ideas about society and thought. (Roberto Mangabeira Unger)

There is no permanent canon of forms of normative argument. Our ways of arguing about ideals are, like our other practices, the mutable products of a specific history and the expressions of our ideas about society and thought.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

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