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(where "politicus" meant the same thing), and, via the French "politique," entered English as
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De bekende blogger the Angry Arab, een Libanees-Amerikaanse prof politieke wetenschappen aan onder andere Berkeley, schreef dat Obama's "speech over het Midden-Oosten evengoed geschreven kon zijn door de ultrarechtse politicus Benjamin Netanyahu".
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 As'ad 2009
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Possibly there is traction in GOP scandles because the GOP claims to represent the Honest and Good side of homo-politicus in USA.
"Why the Democratic Scandals Don't Matter (Yet)." Ann Althouse 2009
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In fact, the same people who, for some purposes can be understood as Homo economicus, for other purposes are better understood as Homo politicus or Homo religiosus.
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On top of that, Olmert vowed to fulfill Sharon's dream of extricating Israel from the traditional mud-heap of party politics by establishing a new corpus politicus that transcended orthodox ideological lines.
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Nonetheless, what for Darwin was little more than a throwaway line was for others, some of whom had scientific pretensions of their own, a big idea that could be the basis of world peace: much as Homo sapiens had evolved from less intelligent and capable primates, Homo politicus might evolve—through the lessons of experience and willful behavior modification, not through natural selection—into a citizen of a single state embracing all humanity.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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AFP: Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs
OpEdNews - Quicklink: AFP: Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs 2007
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: AFP: Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs 2007
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: AFP: Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs
OpEdNews - Quicklink: AFP: Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs 2007
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It was in this sense that, in the thirteenth century, the word “politicus” came to be used as the opposite of “despotic.”
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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