IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF

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The office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. ii “Je ne suis pas marxiste. ” 1 Karl Marx to a French journalist For a long time one has known that the role of philosophy is not to discover what is hidden, but to make visible precisely what is visible, that is to say, to make evident what is so close, so immediate, so intimately linked to us, that because of that we do not perceive it. Whereas the role of science is to reveal what we do not see, the role of philosophy is to let us see what we see.