Confucius's response was to address himself to the issue of learning to be human.
Well, this is his last chance, legislatively speaking, to address himself to posterity.
To assume that tragedy has lost viability is to forget that this viability was seriously questioned by the first Western philosopher to address himself to the problem.
He would address himself to one or other of his fellow performers, as if the guitarist, say, had been the plantation overseer, the flutist a revolutionary comrade.
Preparing to do anything like eating or walking over a mat necessitated a moment or two of backwards sliding before he could address himself to the task.
But the reaction is deepening a rift that began to open last year, after Mr. Putin decided to address himself to a conservative, loyal electorate in the hinterlands, turning away from the prosperous urbanites who were drawn to antigovernment rallies.
This process absorbed him completely: during those years Lowry, who had previously preferred to address himself to several projects at the same time, worked on nothing but his manuscript.
It is impossible to guess why a Russian lawyer should step up to the rostrum to cross-examine a witness and, squaring his shoulders as if he were going to address himself to an athletic feat, should shout words which it would be fair to quote as "Did you conspire to wage an aggressive war against the peace-loving democracies?
The electors are capable of judging his integrity, and he should attend to their local interests; but, more importantly, he must address himself to the general good of the entire nation, acting according to his own judgment and conscience, unfettered by mandates or prior instructions from those he represents.
Frankfurt does not explicitly address himself to the problem of defining integrity, nonetheless he does describe an important and influential account of self-integration.
