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...What may not be obvious, though, is how the lack of moral integrity today stems from an intellectual failure, the epistemological humility that refuses to hold anything as certain. Greene's noted ambiguity and his writing of plays like Yes and No are just two examples. The thinker Ayn Rand held that philosophy is an integrated total. If one finds a person negating what is good in morality, one will always find him at a deeper level negating knowledge and reason. Greene makes this view concrete...
...biggest thinker on the council, about where it is and where it needs to go," Liston says. "As well, I've gotten my hands dirty in some projects...
...attraction went deeper than mutual admiration and concern. It was as if each woman saw in the other an uncompleted part of herself. The staid Old World thinker, comfortably married to a college professor, undoubtedly took vicarious enjoyment in McCarthy's romantic affairs. Arendt, six years younger than her friend, personified a high culture unattainable in America. McCarthy died in 1989, having spent nearly the last third of her life in Europe with her fourth and final husband...
Colleagues have said that he is a decisive, articulate thinker who still manages to step on no one's toes...
...communist thinker simply has a different kind of following now. He's the band Abba, not En Vogue. Marxism these days has appeal "in an odd sort of retro-manner," says Jedediah S. Purdy '97, an editor of Perspective who has studied Marx. "One might use the fashion metaphor that it is equivalent to showing up at a party in your '71 easy rider biker gear. It's a cachet of anachronism...