He modelled respect for the life of the mind, for reason and reasonable debate, for the pursuit of culture.
As Collingwood puts it, the so-called Res Gestae "are not the actions, in the widest sense of that word, which are done by animals of the species called human; they are actions in another sense of the same word, equally familiar but narrower, actions done by reasonable agents in pursuit of ends determined by their reason".
Not to say that regional supremacy isn't a reasonable or worthy pursuit for a university in Rutgers's position.
In the spirit of the systems approach, it is a reasonable and prudent pursuit.
A question they, and other moderate Eurosceptics, should face, is how much poison they are prepared to see tipped into the well of reasonable public debate in pursuit of a goal - Britain outside the EU".
A question they, and other moderate Eurosceptics, should face, is how much poison they are prepared to see tipped into the well of reasonable public debate in pursuit of a goal – Britain outside the EU – whose precise terms none of them can even describe.
Yet there is also a sadness in that smile — lately the Ethiopian community has been expanding around 9th Street and down Georgia Avenue toward the suburbs of Silver Spring, in pursuit of more reasonable rent and a better quality of life.
Each time I've run the program over the past six years, people surprise themselves (and often me) by getting further faster than they did in pursuit of their more "reasonable" goals and dreams.
Socrates' student Plato endorsed that view and held that a fundamental task of education is that of helping students to value reason and to be reasonable, which for him involved valuing wisdom above pleasure, honour, and other less-worthy pursuits.
