Considers current events through an examination of this seventeenth-century philosopher. In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the writings of Baltasar Graci n, a seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit who explored the political uses of rhetoric. Graci n is best known in the United States for his bestselling collection of aphorisms entitled The Art of Worldly Wisdom, but his pragmatic philosophy has been influential...
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