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If philosophy can be appropriately defined as "the attempt to achieve forms of valuation, or principles of valuing, that are as little as possible arbitrary, self-serving, individually or collectively, and as little merely regional or provincial" (DL: 26 f.), then, clearly, philosophy must have a moral or ethical aspect just as surely as it has a metaphysical aspect. But, then, it would seem rather too simple, or one-sided, to say that "metaphysical truth... is the core of philosophic truth" (362). Evidently "the core of philosophic truth" comprises moral or ethical truth as well as metaphysical truth.

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