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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
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A GOOD MANIS HARD TO FIND [1]
EdwinCurley
ofIllinoisat Chicago
University
Presidential
Address
delivered theEighty-ninth
before AnnualCentral
DivisionMeeting
oftheAmerican Association
Philosophical in Chicago, April26, 1991.
Illinois,
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Gulf. We have been engagedin the last coupleof monthsin an orgyof self-
congratulationon the'successful'
conclusionofa warinwhicha greatmanypeople
died. Mostof the dead wereprobably as anyof us,buttheirdeaths
as innocent
somehowdidnotmatter, becausewe gainedourobjective withverylightcasualties
on our side. We ourselves,I suppose,areprobably,as a people,no betterand no
worsethananyother.Butourcapacity foridentification
withthesufferingofothers
notconnected to us bytiesoffamily,religion, or alliance
nationality political seems
to be extremelylimited.
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