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Old 12-05-2006, 08:49 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by Bêthberry
Does change always mean a defeat of hope? I don't think so.
If you ask Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Jünger, Heidegger... yes it does. But if you ask the enlightenment philosophers, Marx, J.S. Mill, the socialist movement, the technocrats... no it doesn't. Change is for the better or worse.

But as a true romantic, J.R.R. did not love change?
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