“Not the ideas themselves, but the non-religious concept of transcendence in philosophy […] is political in origin.”
“We become more just and more pious by thinking and talking about justice and piety.”
“[T]hese are exercises in political thought as it arises out of the actuality of political incidents (though such incidents are mentioned only occasionally), and my…
“Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin…