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É que, só por mero acaso (?), o irmão era só o superintendente-chefe, António Neves, dos Serviços de Migração e Estrangeiros (SME) entidade que, ultimamente, tem andado muito activa “devolução” de ilegais (como os ocorridos, no Lubango, já este mês).

Global Voices in English » Angola: The assassination of a ruling party MP 2009

This has absolutely nothing to do with academic freedom, but with legal advocacy (by a glorified trade school) despite the fact that many in the academy are prone to conflate vita contemplativa with vita activa.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Clinics Under Siege 2010

No elogio fúnebre, destacou-se a participação activa de Beatriz Salucombo nas acções de luta clandestina contra o colonialismo português, particularmente no apoio aos guerrilheiros do MPLA na zona da Lunda Sul.

Global Voices in English » Angola: The assassination of a ruling party MP 2009

Liberalism's propensity to conflate liberty with freedom and to construction of subjectivity largely ex negativo — that is, as a strictly formal or pragmatic concept of agency achieved by jettisoning any norms, values, and frameworks that would coordinate the discrete projects of modernity's vita activa with a significant telos.

The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008

With weapons and instruments of scholarship interspersed throughout its cabinets, this etymological play — transparent to Federico's colleagues52 — suggests that the entire Urbino studiolo may be interpreted simultaneously as an armariolum and armamentum, a witty spin on the traditional rhetorical trope of the vita activa and vita contemplativa. 53 48

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

This has absolutely nothing to do with academic freedom, but with legal advocacy by a glorified trade school despite the fact that many in the academy are prone to conflate vita contemplativa with vita activa.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Clinics Under Siege 2010

Note 78: Citing Seneca's treatise on On the Tranquillity of Mind (I.V. #236), Virginia Tenzer notes that the inclusion of these figures on the east wall strengthens the narrative of the vita activa/vita contemplativa.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Alberti was also occupied by the dialectic of the vita activa – vita contemplativa. 33 Through his own treatise on the subject, De commodis literarum atque incommodis,34 and a study of the Florentine family, Della famiglia,35 Alberti deeply influenced a younger generation of powerful and wealthy soldier-scholars, including Leonello d'Este and Federico, who negotiated their turbulent political climate as much by tactical eloquence as by militaristic valor.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

The truly important distinctions, Vallicella insists, are between politics and partisanship, on the one hand, and between the vita activa and vita contemplativa on the other.

Why intellectuals are political 2009

Therefore, the vita activa, which seeks to establish a kind of immortality, ruins any experience of eternity, since the eternal needs absolute quiet that the quest of immortality ruins with its busywork.

The Human Condition, continued fantasyecho 2007