For instance, Laurence Lampert's view that "It is reasonable to suspect that a partisan of esoteric philosophy [i.e. Strauss] would himself write esoterically" (Lampert 2009, p. 63) simply does not follow from Strauss's own claims.
In an apparent jab at the pro-Russian prime minister, Robert Fico, the president praised the wartime partisans for rejecting "philosophy that it is always possible to get out of everything on the lee side without casualties".
John Smith, author of Select Discourses (1660), and the earliest recorded partisan of the Cartesian philosophy in England, was the first to introduce the study of Descartes to Cambridge.
President Bush has consistently appointed younger, partisan judges whose extremist philosophy will stain the judiciary for years.
Politics is a very different game from philosophy, and partisans are accountable to their teammates and their funders, not to one another.
Eight years ago, riven by debate over whether to uphold or overturn the constitutional right to abortion announced in Roe v. Wade, the court faced another moment of institutional crisis, albeit one that had to do with judicial philosophy rather than partisan ideology.
Cardinal de Retz, who was a partisan of the new Cartesian philosophy, provided protection for Desgabets and invited him to the Cartesian conferences held at le Chateau de Commercy.
He and I share many positions, but his embrace of an unrelenting partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings results for Hoosiers in the Senate.
In this way, new Xuanxue-Daoist insight comes to illuminate concerns typically associated with Confucian philosophy, sweeping aside any partisan obstacles along its path.
Neo-Daoist philosophers set forth the truth of Dao as they understood it in a broad synthesis, bringing together ontology, cosmology, ethics, and political philosophy, and breaking down partisan divides along the way.
