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Orange Jacobs: “Is the power to think and reflect and to judge of the moral quality of thoughts and actions, a property of matter or…”

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Is the power to think and reflect and to judge of the moral quality of thoughts and actions, a property of matter or not?
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs questions whether the ability to think and judge morally is inherent to matter.

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