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If there are no general moral truths, the object of I scientific ethics cannot be to fix rules for human conduct, the aim of all science being the discovery of some truth.

Edvard Westermarck

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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Edvard Westermarck

Edvard Westermarck
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Born: November 20, 1862
Died: September 3, 1939 (aged 76)
Bio: Edvard Alexander Westermarck was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo.
Known for:
  1. The History of Human Marriage (1891)
  2. Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926)
  3. Ethical Relativity (1932)
  4. Christianity and morals (1939)

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