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The False Equivalence of Virtue and Happiness

August 8, 2016

“If the little difficulty of the entry of evil into the world requires that you vary one of God’s perfect qualities, why defend his power at the expense of his goodness? If one must choose between two untruths, I would prefer the opposite choice.”Rousseau’s letter to Voltaire, 18 August 1756

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