The Art of Life / / John Kekes.
"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean. that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by way of exemplary lives, and learning it consists in coming to appreciate what makes some lives exemp...
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