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Utopia and the meaning of life: ludic reason versus instrumental reason in Bernard Suits’ work

Francisco Javier Lopez FriasKinesiology Department and Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Xavier Gimeno MonfortMoral Philosophy Department, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Pages 142-154 | Received 27 Oct 2018, Accepted 16 Jun 2019, Published online: 29 Jul 2019

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