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Leaders, he seemed to be saying, must keep their feet on the ground. Clausewitz thinks similarly.
John Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
His example wasn’t an intellectual but an ethical one.
John Berger • Bento's Sketchbook
his philosophical idealism
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
For in modern times there are opposing views about the tasks to be set, for there are no generally accepted assumptions about what the young should learn, either for virtue or for the best life; nor yet is it clear whether their education ought to be conducted with more concern for the intellect than for the character of the soul…it is by no means
... See moreGary Thomas • Education: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
This is the work of politics—understood as the ordering of society and the regulation of power to permit human flourishing while simultaneously restraining the most Hobbesian human instincts.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Philosophy for the previous several centuries had been primarily a classroom exercise. It had been about the pursuit of the good life—about truth and meaning—but for the student first and foremost. Almost all the philosophical schools—Cynic, Platonist, Aristotelian, Epicurean, even Stoicism—had tuned out the real world of social and political life.
Stephen Hanselman • Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.
George Weigel • Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
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