Tom G. Palmer quote

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.
Tom G. Palmer
Tom G. Palmer
Tom G. Palmer
Born: 1956

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