"Philosophers are not and have never claimed to be sages or saints, leading lives of impeccable virtue. Their arguments are intellectual and their individual foibles do not automatically invalidate their conclusions. But if philosophers are not priests neither are they artists of any type who can claim a complete dissociation between their lives and their work – and such a claim by any philosopher may be disputed."
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