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absolute values, which serve as legitimizing factors in the establishment and maintenance of fanatical notions. Hägerström’s hope was thus that once moral values were shown neither to have scientific truth value nor to have objective existence, fanaticism itself would become rationally as well as psychologically impossible to defend and maintain, which would eventually mitigate the harshness of fanatical ideologies.130 p a r t i v, c h a p t e r 5 288 130 Hägerström,“Moraliska föreställningar,” pp. 45-48;“Moral Propositions,” pp. 92-95.

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