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Quoting with approval John Kerrigan's assessment that "'[Shakespeare] becomes a self-considering artist,' a 'poet willing to engage with his own work critically, as reader and rethinker,'" (189) Erne concludes by trying to account for the shortness of Macbeth.
A broader philosophical tradition informs the present study, comprising the major classical texts on friendship by Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch and Lucian, as well as Augustine and, prominently, the late medieval commentators and rethinkers of Aristotelian ethics: Aquinas, Ockham, Peter Lombard, Johannes Altensteig, John Major and others.
The old pervasive liberal fear of discussing issues like crime and bureaucracy has almost completely disappeared--partly under the press of political expediency, since it became clear that liberals would almost always lose unless they gave up the luxury of refusing to confront tough questions, and partly thanks to the good work done by liberal rethinkers.
 
 
 
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