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Malthusianism is, indeed, the philosophy of the bug heap, of man as devouring swarm rather than ennobling angel.
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One of Ayer's first appointments, though, was of a very different sort of man: John Watling, a student of physics and psychology who had taken to attending philosophy seminars.
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He's framed the current presidential election as one between Romney - whom he sees as man with an Ayn Rand-like philosophy of personal responsibility to the point of divisiveness - and Obama, a Benjamin Disraeli-like candidate, whom Sullivan views as believing in the obligation of the coherence of the nation.
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History will teach future generations that he was a man who used his political power to promote a philosophy of exclusion.
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The Young Eisner Scholars is the outgrowth of one man's natural curiosity, not a predetermined pedagogical philosophy.
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After spending a lot of time falling asleep at the library while facing the philosophy books, I determined that the concept of destiny is a construct that allows man a gentle release from facing the terror of his existence, and that a Hyundai full of twenties would pretty much offer the same benefits.
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Despite his failure ever to meet Gladstone, Mr Bognador draws heavily on the Old Man's philosophy to argue that Tony Blair's recent transformation of the British constitution is more likely to strengthen the union than to break it apart.
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