What is commonly called liberality is the condition of bein… - David L. Norton

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What is commonly called liberality is the condition of being open, available to all truths. But this is precisely eclecticism, confusion, the absence of integrity.

David L. Norton

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David Lloyd Norton (March 27, 1930 – July 24, 1995) was an American philosopher, who taught at the University of Delaware for 29 years. In 1976 Princeton University Press published his book Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism, which received wide notice.

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To speak a truth that belongs to another is untruth, for speaking belongs to living, hence to speak another’s truth is to live a life that is not one’s own.

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The great enemy of integrity is not falsehood as such but … the attractiveness of foreign truths, truths that belong to others.

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