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Quotation by Mortimer J. Adler

“ A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair-a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its parts, and through their good order to one another. It cannot be called good as a whole until it is finished. During the process all we can say of it, if we speak precisely, is that it is becoming good. The same is true of a whole human life. Just as the whole performance never exists at any one time, but is a process of becoming, so a human life is also a performance in time and a process of becoming. And just as the goodness that attaches to the performance as a whole does not attach to any of its parts, so the goodness of a human life as a whole belongs to it alone, and not to any of its parts or phases. ”

Mortimer J. Adler

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U.S. educator, philosopher (1902-2001). Source of this quotation: The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense, ch. 2, Holt (1970).


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