When we spoke about Trump, Sloterdijk explained him as part of a shift in Western history.
It seeks to explain him as a man, making him traumatised by the suicide of his wife.
Jodi Kantor took the first, Mitt-based approach in the Times this past weekend, in a long piece that was careful to assert its interest in Romney's religion not for its own sake but for how it explained him as a businessman and a politician — as "a man whose faith is his design for living".
"I don't try to do his whole life", says Jones, "but I want to show two hours of it that would explain him as an artist, give some insight into his crazy, complex psyche, and [create] an appreciation of his music".
Bentham held that the foundation of morals and legislation should be, as Singer explains him, "to maximize pleasure or happiness and minimize pain or unhappiness". Once killed, the disabled infant will be freed of pain.
The modern Zoroastrians of India, the Parsis, tend to diminish the importance of Ahriman by explaining him away as an allegory of humanity's evil tendencies.
…modern Zoroastrians of India, the Parsis, tend to diminish the importance of Angra Mainyu by explaining him away as an allegory of humanity's evil tendencies.
Using what Henry politely explained to him, as well as what he'd picked up from reading European reports, Morse now built his own telegraph device, and rapidly began patenting everything he could.
He'd just played before Pinch and Riko Dan and I explained to him – as clearly as I could – that I was working on a piece about Principe, and how I had loved my time I spent in Lisbon.
Perhaps that is as good a definition of what it is to deal with a sociopath as any, but to call Mr. Madoff a sociopath isn't really to explain him so much as to explain our failure to pick up on his scam.
