This stance is not only compatible with a theological viewpoint, in which God's purpose for mankind cannot be deduced from His creation, but also with a philosophical viewpoint according to which man himself is the ultimate source of knowledge and moral values. ... In this sense, secondly, Kant's critical philosophy is not only an apotheosis of the preceding Western ways of thinking and believing, but forms also (at least one of) the foundations of those intuitions, ideas, beliefs and convictions, which are dominantly present in our time. ...

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Although he never matched the popular and critical success he enjoyed with "Lord of the Flies," he remained a respected and distinguished author for the rest of his life and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. ...

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