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A statesman, the argument went, ought to have a disinterested view of the long-term welfare of the state, not a narrow factional wish for short-term power-grabbing on behalf of his friends and financiers.
However, I think the key point is one Hodgson only half concedes: that exceptionalism "is not so much a disinterested view of the American past as a dimension of American patriotism".
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But there are a handful of more disinterested views of the settlement.Perhaps most surprising is the commentary by Einer Elhauge, a Harvard law professor and co-author of a leading antitrust textbook, who describes himself as a "strong supporter" of the Bush administration and its antitrust division.
(Not all of those who complain of a war against Christians take such a disinterested view).
The Federalists genuinely believed that the Jeffersonians would pull the country down into a mire of antediluvian slave-state agrarianism; the Democratic Republicans' long-term, disinterested view was that the Federalists would sell the country out to Wall Street.
Uber draws controversy around the country for a number of very good reasons, and it's nice when a news organization takes a fully disinterested view.
In the "age of scientific enlightenment" (ibid., p. 420) an ethically disinterested or even cynical view of the world is therefore out of place: "Psychology points in the direction of human needs and interests that must be satisfied.
From the point of view of a disinterested observer, the only plus point of the accident, which also took out the two impressive Saubers, was that it has narrowed Alonso's lead in the championship.
Kant's formalism was particularly influential, via the influence of Hanslick, in musical theory; for recent discussion see Kivy (2009), ch. 2. Typically objections to Kant's view of pleasure as disinterested appeal to the apparently obvious fact that we do in fact take an interest in the preservation of beautiful objects (see for example Crawford 1974, p. 53).
It is, potentially, a tragic epitaph for the consensus view of our legal system as a disinterested finder of fact and dispenser of justice.
Unlike others of that school, he seems to have had a basically unsentimental and skeptical view of human society that gave a notably disinterested tone to his writing.
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