One simply cannot imagine him delivering lectures, engaging in polemics, or leading a movement.
Diogenes was apparently well aware of still ongoing philosophical debates, engaging in polemics against Presocratic philosophers, Platonics, and especially Stoics.
Under the editorship of George Gorman in particular, the North-China Standard engaged with polemic and debate about Japan's role in China, serving its Chinese and foreign readerships conscientiously and intelligently.
It is not the first time Mr. Yerushalmi has engaged in polemics.
Frequently engaged in polemics with other Buddhist leaders, Saichō was more significant as a leader and organizer than as a religious thinker.
They were influenced by certain aspects, and in other ways they tried to distinguish Jewish law from Islamic law and they engaged in polemics against Islam.
Can these really be the words of a physicist so engaged in polemics and controversy with the scientific orthodoxy of his day?
It was possible, despite the anti-American fervour of the Cultural Revolution, for Chairman Mao Zedong to extend the hand of friendship to Richard Nixon, and in the early 1990s for Deng Xiaoping to establish ties with Eastern Europe's new anti-communist leaders, ignoring pressure from party hardliners to engage in polemics.
Was a Christian illustrator of the Hebrew text engaging in a subtle polemic?
"Our aim is not to accuse or engage in a polemic," he said.
In recent years, the horror of what Americans have done to other Americans — and particularly white Americans to black Americans — has led to a steady, engaged anti-prison polemic, one with many authors singing more or less in unison.
