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Munzel again: "the lawless exercise of human nature appears feverish and swollen and calls for discipline as the propaedeutic first step in bringing about a state of moral health by alleviating the symptoms" (1999, 280); "a good state constitution" centers first on "the 'moral formation of a people'" before allowing them freedom later (286).
What's more, it's a book-length advertisement for the chops to be gained from steady review work, which was clearly propaedeutic for Ratliff's confident and lively voice (who but a serenely assured writer would title a chapter covering Coltrane's nonproductive years "Not Much Happens"?
In fact, the fundamental purpose of Catholic apologetics is to present the most persuasive intellectual defense of the faith, a kind of propaedeutic to the reasonableness of Catholic belief.
 
 
 
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