integrity, The Mechanics of Virtue, 260

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As moralists, we believed that because we craved integrity, we must therefore have been capable of it.  Now that we mechanists believe we are incapable of integrity, we feel we ought not to crave it.  Thus, even as nihilists we imagine that we sponge away our physiology when we scratch an equation on the chalkboard.

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