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A British admirer of this thinker used the example of someone being “unselfed” by the sight of a kestrel outside their window to illustrate this thinker’s concept of “decreation.” A book by this (10[1])thinker compares social institutions that deceive the conscience to Plato’s “Great Beast,” but allows that “earthly blessings” like home and country can be metaxu (“meh-tax-YEW”) connecting humans to the divine. (10[1])Iris Murdoch drew on this thinker’s prioritization of moral “attention” over will. (-5[1])This thinker argued that rights should be grounded in “obligations” to address modern déracinement (“day-rah-seen-MON”), or uprootedness. (10[1])This author (-5[1])of “The Iliad, (10[1])or The Poem (10[2])of Force” (10[1])and (10[1])The (10[1])Need for Roots (10[1])attempted to fight for the Spanish Republic and Free (10[1])France before her death from (10[1])tuberculosis and self-starvation at age 34. For (10[1])10 points, Gravity (10[1]0[1])and Grace is by (10[1])what French mystic philosopher? ■END■ (10[3]0[5])

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