The Weight of the Past.
The question that this paper seeks to answer is that of whether the resistance to change that characterizes the conservative temperament has any rational basis. More precisely, my question is whether we have good grounds for accepting any version of the principle that if something exists then we nee...
| Publicado en: | Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 152 - 165 |
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Mar2023
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