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The ‘Moral Illusion’ of Governmental Authority
Submitted by Jad Davis on Mon, 2012-01-23 01:00
Wow! This philosopher says reality is real and he *still* gets to hold a position at a public university. How'd that happen?: "Huemer notes that he likes some aspects of the social-contract theory. 'The only thing that’s wrong with it is that it’s false,' he observes. 'There was no time at which somebody wrote up this contract and everybody signed it.'"
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