Mr. Turque also contends that for all Mr. Gore's passionate evangelism about the environment he has demonstrated "a pattern of passivity and timidity on environmental policy" as vice president, relegating the beliefs he laid out in his book "Earth in the Balance" "to a separate intellectual account, above and apart from his political life".
The sophisticated story that Mark Lilla, a professor of the humanities at Columbia University, presents in "The Stillborn God" adds nuance and complexity to the intellectual account we tell about the West's thinking on religion and politics, and how it managed to separate (sort of) the one from the other.
Our competitiveness as a nation in coming decades will be determined not only by our financial accounts but also by our intellectual accounts.
Although no longer widely read as a literary work, it remains significant in intellectual history for its accounts of Victorian scepticism and the Oxford Movement.
For those who keep track of such things, the Scots, in current accounts of intellectual history, have caught up with the French as leading exponents of Enlightenment thought.
"Industries driven by intellectual property account for nearly half of our economic growth and drive sixty per cent of the growth of our exports.
Aged 25, it was an injury while playing football – she dislocated her knee and spent 10 months in crutches – that prompted her to give up her job as an intellectual property account manager and train as a journalist.
Proponents of the intellectual seemings account must be concerned to explain the error of their opponents and, ideally, to enable them to locate the states in themselves.
Historically, the most famous sophisticated intellectual capacities account was given by Kant, according to whom autonomy, the capacity to set ends via practical reasoning, must be respected (see the entry on respect) and grounds the dignity of all rational beings ([GMM], pp. 434, 436, Prussian Academy pagination).
The growth rate is likely to accelerate starting in 2015, as work based on intellectual property accounts for a growing share of the total, he said.
But encouragement and money aren't the whole story; it was equally essential that "I already had the business skills [in] international transactions, import-export, intellectual property, accounting principles, liability and tax, all those kinds of things.
