It's not an intellectual ascent to a doctrinal system".
For the past two decades the growing integration of the world economy has coincided with the intellectual ascent of the Anglo-Saxon brand of free-market capitalism, with America as its cheerleader.
This union was conceived as the final stage in an intellectual ascent beginning with the impressions of sense objects that consist of form and matter and rising through a hierarchy of spiritual forms (i.e., forms containing less and less matter) to the Active Intellect, which is an emanation of the deity.
He did this, as writers will, in pursuit of the story he wanted to tell: how his brother's ascent to intellectual dominance forced him into a lesser role as attendant observer, but how, in that lesser, watching role, he eventually found his vocation in life, a vocation defined by its disabilities.
Jeffers, a professor of literature at Marquette University, skillfully weaves together these and countless other stories of Podhoretz's dramatic ascent to the peak of influence within the liberal intellectual world.
The author of The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale revealed last week that she has a singing cameo in the Canadian film Score: A Hockey Musical, the story of a teenage hockey phenomenon whose intellectual mother, played by Olivia Newton-John, is dismayed by his ascent to fame.
Their ascent to the forefront of Arab politics charts the lingering intellectual and organizational prowess of the Muslim Brotherhood, a revivalist movement founded by an Egyptian schoolteacher in a Suez Canal town in 1928.
He was on a mystical, otherworldly ascent, very typical of both the Kabbalah and Plato, his two intellectual passions.
Philosophical conversion the beginning of the ascent to the One consists precisely in turning away, by a tremendous intellectual and moral effort, from the life of the body, dominating and rising above its desires, and "waking to another way of seeing, which everyone has but few use".
But in a political environment largely dominated by knee-jerk, anti-intellectual pontificating, Knepper's commentary was both insightful and refreshing -- and his quick ascent to an influential platform reflected as much.
Through a painful intellectual process, which involves the rejection and overcoming of the familiar sensible world, they begin an ascent out of the cave into reality.
