It is not surprising that they selected their themes from every Renaissance problem of order and authority, of passion and reason, of good and evil and explored every comic attitude to people and society with unsurpassed vigour and vision.
Moral philosophy requires not only experience, but good upbringing and the ordering of the passions.
"You've got to hire experts in order to grow a culture of passion and expertise and this was another real breakthrough for us," says Cheatle.
Like the equipoise of violence and form -- of violence as form -- in Burroughs's own work, the hit man is obliged to be a perfect balance of passion and order.
As Francisco Goldman describes in his incisive 2007 book, "The Art of Political Murder," about the assassination of Bishop Gerardi, the military and its intelligence operators concocted evidence and witnesses to generate endless hypotheses — it was a robbery, it was a crime of passion — in order to conceal the simple truth that they had murdered him.
He says he was scared beyond words to take such a big step, but he trusted that in order to live a life of passion he was going to have get past his fear to do the thing that scared him, just like he pushes his clients to do.
Acrasia, weakness of will, would occur when someone who knows what is right does what is wrong under the influence of passion or in order to secure pleasure.
We thus have a responsibility to cultivate reason in order to avoid the moral failings of passion, partiality and so forth.
I had been guided to a region of order, and a passion for science, by two very wise, affectionate, and understanding uncles.
Philip Roth likes to use a framing narrative in order to approach with investigative curiosity a tale of passion.
