It treats the medieval knight's conflict between private inclination and public responsibility.
A system such as the critical philosophy of Kant freely lends itself to reconstructions of its synthesis according to whatever preferences the private philosophical inclinations of the reader may impose or suggest.
He's surprisingly awkward, private by inclination.
But even as the endurance of Obamacare no longer appears in doubt, the breadth and impact of the president's signature health care expansion remains subject to the vagaries of Washington bureaucracy, the inclinations of private employers opposed to extending health care benefits, and the political calculations of elected officials in individual states.
"In circumstances like this I think there's an inclination against the private school," he said.
Mr. Medvedev, a former law professor and corporate lawyer, has shown a greater inclination to foster private business than his predecessor, who is now prime minister.
But his revivification of Lincoln dramatises not only a general sense of the conflict between private and public selves, duty and inclination, doubt and resolve, but a very specifically American one.
The citizen appears either as the primary political agent or as an individual whose private activities leave little time or inclination to engage actively in politics, entrusting the business of law-making to representatives.
Although these pension plans contain money earned by every kind of American, including the underserved, the private venture capital industry has shown little inclination towards equitable investment in minority-owned businesses.
While the members of the white minority were by inclination wedded to a system of private enterprise, they had evolved a system of government intervention to support infant industries and maintain agricultural prices through marketing boards.
The growing interest of the private sector in this area suggests a strong inclination for significant expansion.
