Brian Leiter (1963) American philosopher and legal scholar
"The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud"
“A few lives to save the many is any captain's rule.”
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 14 "The Toast is Victory!"
Context: ‘ I am telling you you must not care, sir. The three men died, but they helped to give us a small advance knowledge which we may use against the enemy. At the conference tomorrow they would all answer the same. A few lives to save the many is any captain's rule.’
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Part I.
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Extracted from Proverbs Blog https://providencepath.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/jung-myung-seok-saving-your-spirit/
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