"Moral development in the individual, and moral progress in the human species as a whole, is a matter of re-marking human selves so as to enlarge the variety of relationships which constitute those selves. The ideal limit of this process of enlargement is the self envisaged by Christian and Buddhist accounts of sainthood — an ideal self to whom the hunger and suffering of any human being (and even, perhaps, that of any other animal) is intensely painful."

~   Richard Rorty, “Ethics Without Principles” (via pragmatica)

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