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they "Participate" In beauty.
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They partake of beauty to varying degrees.
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But none of them should be confused with beauty itself.
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Or, take justice.
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There are various arrangements, social arrangements,
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that can be just or unjust to varying degrees.
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But we don't think anywhere in the world
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there's any society that's perfectly just.
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Yet for all that,
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the mind can think about perfect justice.
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And notice how ordinary empirical social arrangements
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fall short of perfect justice.