My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have ... "an ambition of transcendence." (Richard Rorty)

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have ... "an ambition of transcendence."

Richard Rorty

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