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Hope Is The Deep Orientation Of The Human Soul That Can Be Held At The Darkest Times.

The Award Is Destined For Scientists Who Do Not Fear To Touch On Some Of The Darkest Aspects Of Being Without Betraying What They Have Achieved. On The Contrary, They Head In This Direction.

Without Commonly Shared And Widely Entrenched Moral Values And Obligations, Neither The Law, Nor Democratic Government, Nor Even The Market Economy Will Function Properly.

Whether All Is Really Lost Or Not Depends Entirely On Whether Or Not I Am Lost.

The Question Is Wholly Other, Deeper And Equally Relevant To All: Whether We Shall, By Whatever Means, Succeed In Reconstituting The Natural World As The True Terrain Of Politics, Rehabilitating The Personal Experience Of Human Beings As The Initial Measure Of Things, Placing Morality Above Politics And Responsibility Above Our Desires, In Making Human Community Meaningful, In Returning Content To Human Speech, In Reconstituting, As The Focus Of All Social Action, The Autonomous, Integral, And Dignified Human "i."