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Cao Lynh Posted 21 years ago
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Could you please hepl me to get the main idea of the following sentence in The Tragic Fallacy by Joseph Wood Krutch:
"Like the belief in love and like most of the other mighty illusions by means of which human has veen given a value, the Tragic Fallacy depends ultimately upon the assumption which man so readily makes that something outside his own being, some "spirit not himself" --- be it God, Nature, or that still vaguer thing called a Moral Order --- joins him in the emphasis which he places upon this or that and conforms him in his feeling that his passions and his opinions are important."
Please do me a favour and write the sentence in a simpler style.
Thank you so much.
Cao Lynh
"Like the belief in love and like most of the other mighty illusions by means of which human has veen given a value, the Tragic Fallacy depends ultimately upon the assumption which man so readily makes that something outside his own being, some "spirit not himself" --- be it God, Nature, or that still vaguer thing called a Moral Order --- joins him in the emphasis which he places upon this or that and conforms him in his feeling that his passions and his opinions are important."
Please do me a favour and write the sentence in a simpler style.
Thank you so much.
Cao Lynh
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g. love. These give human life value.
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- love.
- These give human life value.
- The Tragic Fallacy (= TF) is one of these illusions.
- The TF depends upon an assumption that human beings make.
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Hello Cao Lynh
"There are illusions, e.g. love. These give human life value. The Tragic Fallacy (= TF) is one of these illusions. The TF depends upon an assumption that human beings make. This assumption has these elements:
1. Certain things are important.
2. There are non-human forces, e.g. ***, Nature, Moral Order.
3. These non-human forces agree that the thin
"There are illusions, e.g. love. These give human life value. The Tragic Fallacy (= TF) is one of these illusions. The TF depends upon an assumption that human beings make. This assumption has these elements:
1. Certain things are important.
2. There are non-human forces, e.g. ***, Nature, Moral Order.
3. These non-human forces agree that the thin
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