Above all, the polemical aim is shared: if Leibniz and hylozoists like Cudworth entered into a debate against reductionist and basically atheistic mechanism, Lynn Margulis, together with James Lovelock, entered into a debate against a certain kind of gene-centered and reductionist view of Neo-Darwinism.
The works that unambiguously present Plutarch's opinions on exegetical and philosophical matters are On the Generation of Soul in the Timaeus, and Platonic Questions, while the others must be used with caution, for the reasons given above, or because of their polemical aim and tone (see Opsomer 2007).
Walden aims at conversion, and Thoreau's polemical purpose gives it an energy and drive missing in the meanders of the sole other book he saw into publication during his short lifetime, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).
Sheehan's article isn't polemical; it aims for realism.
But this is a deliberately populist, polemical volume, aimed at concerned citizens, not fellow number-crunchers.
The First Treatise of Government is a polemical work aimed at refuting the patriarchal version of the Divine Right of Kings doctrine put forth by Sir Robert Filmer.
A short, polemical work aimed at an English readership, the book warned of the danger to the game if Bodyline was allowed as a legitimate tactic.
When it was first published in Canada and the USA, just after some well-publicised demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organisation in November 1999 put "anti-globalisation" on the international media agenda, No Logo flourished a polemical subtitle ("Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies"), and was hailed as a mix of radical journalism and a call to arms.
Historians such as RH Tawney, Lawrence Stone, Hugh Trevor-Roper and Christopher Hill were "writers of extraordinary power, boldness and polemical gifts", who aimed to be understood by the common reader.
2), but in his polemical works Plutarch aims especially to demonstrate that departure from Plato results in self-contradictions, of which he accuses the Stoics in particular (Boys-Stones 1997a).
As in the rest of his philosophical works, in his polemical treatises too, Plutarch aims to show that Plato's philosophy makes good sense as a whole, that is, it does justice to the world and human nature and can bring human beings to happiness (see below, sect.
