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Gaita contends 'not that young people should abandon a sense of obligation for love or that they should not dream of a better world. It is that their sense of the place of justice in their lives should not depend on the energies that such dreams inspire and, for a time, sustain.'

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— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2006 2006; (p. 396-409) Gaita concludes his essay on 'Justice and Hope' with the statement: 'Reflection on duty, on the nautre and requirements of justice, on what it is to honour those requirements, on the virtues and vices of being a dreamer and on the moral psychology of political commitment - these should be informed by Plato's simple but profound insight that we become like what we love.'
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