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One way of characterizing this approach is that it goes for the "kernels of truth" within larger, more problematic (or at least more polemical) discussions, and thereby performs a service for readers who might be sympathetic with some aspects of the views of MacKinnon or Butler, but who are not willing to accept the body of work that encompasses them.
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The bulk of this polemical discussion concentrates on the difficulties for the Stoic position by claiming that their concept of fate makes human deliberation superfluous and therefore imports disastrous consequences for human morality and life in general (chs. 7 21).
Pomponazzi himself taught at Padua from 1488 to 1496, in the final year receiving a doctorate in medicine and writing the treatise De maximo et minimo ("On Maxima and Minima"), a polemical discussion of William Heytesbury's theories.
We ought to entertain such questions and engage in thoughtful rather than polemical public discussions about them.
* Beware of discussions with a polemical or argumentative tone.
Instead, viewers seeking interaction and discussion turn to polemical clips about religion or politics, including incendiary hits like "Macedonia Is Greece," "Atheist" and "The Truth About Islam From an Ex-Muslim Lady".
Now, the image is back online and the museum has taken the incident as a chance to spark a discussion about the polemical depiction of women in Pop art.
Far from the polemical and antagonistic exchange I had anticipated, our discussion was calm and respectful.
It was a provocative finish to a polemical week in Madrid, where the introduction of blue clay ruled discussions before the tournament, and that never let up once the stars started slipping and complaining in earnest.
Regardless of one's position on this highly polemical subject, ASA had the hutzpah to, at least, open a discussion about the political commitments of the organization and its ideological direction.
His new book extends the discussion of "Globalization and Its Discontents" but largely avoids the polemical tone.
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