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| | Right Reason: Failure |
 | | It is, arguably, the experience, anticipation, and sense of inevitability of failure, or the absence of all these, that has shaped much of the self-understanding of conservatives and their opposites. |
 | | Most crucially: for those for whom failure is not inevitable, or for whom success is mandatory, the temptation is almost always overwhelming to see the end-state, in which all partial failures have been overcome, as overriding all person-centered considerations and restrictions. |
 | | In philosophical ethics, two of the most important treatments of failure are those of Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel, in their somewhat different essays, both titled "Moral Luck." Williams, for example, argues in his essay that in some cases it is only success or failure that justifies or disjustifies an agent's choices. |
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