Here, then, we are being given a glimpse of one version of reality. According to this version heroism is an illusion. … The qualities of the patricia… - R. W. K. Paterson

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Here, then, we are being given a glimpse of one version of reality. According to this version heroism is an illusion. … The qualities of the patrician are fool’s gold, and a reasonable human being, a clear-sighted realist, will seek what is attainable—what other realistic people have already attained and are enjoying—physical security and comfort, social esteem, a changing variety of dependable pleasures, and the money or status which will ensure that all of these remain with reach.

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About R. W. K. Paterson

Ronald William Keith Paterson (born September 20, 1933, in Arbroath, Scotland) served as a senior lecturer in philosophy in the department of adult education and the department of philosophy at University of Hull.

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Alternative Names: R.W.K. Paterson Ronald William Keith Paterson
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The version of reality a man adopts will depend largely on his values. … It is therefore possible for a learned man, who has conscientiously acquired a vast, carefully organized, and scrupulously representative mass of historical, sociological, and psychological knowledge, to be nevertheless disastrously wrong about its human meaning.

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