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15 - Humanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2017

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Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
Edited by
Sacha Golob  and
Jens Timmermann
Sacha Golob
Affiliation:
King's College London
Jens Timmermann
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
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The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy , pp. 192 - 207
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