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I'm thinking of thinkers like Hobbes ,
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like Carl Schmitt, and Max Weber in the twentieth century.
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All of these thinkers take their bearings from the extreme situation,
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situations of civil war, of social collapse, of national crisis.
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The Aristotelian statesman
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will not be unduly affected by the occasional
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need to depart from the norm,
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whether this means this is spent in the case,
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to take an American case, the suspension of habeas Corpus,
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as Abraham Lincoln did in the, during the Civil War,
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or the regrettable need to engage in domestic espionage.
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But in any case, the Aristotelian statesman's goal