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In the Western tradition, the Machiavellian-Hobbesian account departs fundamentally from the Aristotelian-Thomist conception of politics as an art of persuasion and good government, which rests on an idea of right reason in search of ethical ends such as the good life.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
St Bonaventure (c.1217–74), for instance, governor-general of the order from 1257 to 1274, was a university man and speculative theologian of enormous erudition who succeeded grandly in combining the mystical elations of Franciscan piety with the rational disciplines of academic philosophy.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Can there be a connection between online universities and the serial insurgencies which, in media noise and human blood, have rocked the Arab Middle East? I contend that there is.