Overestimating the Power of Reason

In the baptismal letter to his newborn great-nephew, uncle Dietrich looks toward the world his namesake will inherit.  These paragraphs introduce a theme that is at the core of his Ethics, “responsibility,” and being prepared to take action. We have live too much in a world of ideas, and we thought it would be possible [...]

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