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free, yet remains everywhere in Sisyphean chains. Why? Because “men are not equal,”109 neither by nature, nor by covenants of goodwill. In such a state, humans are condemned to be free and not free, for what nature does not endow, humans cannot claim. Indeed, “when reason approaches nature, nature teaches reason.”110 Nature teaches that humans are not noble savages unless true equality is deemed, as Kymlicka posits, “the accommodation of differences.”111
109 Nietzsche. Thus Spake Zarahustra. The Tarantulas. Trans. Thomas Commons. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1997. 97-99
110 Kant. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Trans. by Mary Gregor. UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
111 Kymlicka, Will. Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 474
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