Monday, July 13, 2009

Obama, Philosopher-in-Chief

Carlin Romano writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education [06/26/2009], describing how President Obama's foreign policy positions are informed by a commitment to philosophical principles from pragmatism to Stoic cosmopolitanism. A selection:

At its core, his teaching was ethical and political, using the intellectual tools of logic to illuminate hypocrisy and contradiction.

Sounds like philosophy to me!

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