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Where positivist reason dominates the field to the exclusion of all else – and that is broadly the case in our public mindset – then the classical sources of knowledge for ethics and law are excluded. This is a dramatic situation which affects everyone, and on which a public debate is necessary. Indeed, an essential goal of this address is to issue an urgent invitation to launch one.

A pretty audacious invitation.

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John Fogarty said in an interview, when asked what it's like to be a rock star, "...just be who you are."

[the invisib1e hand]

actually, he said, "just try to be who you are," which is much bigger statement.