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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Factory
Existential
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Ethical
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Becoming
Nietzsche
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