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Freud grappled with this very dilemma in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
West has really grappled with the great plays and found in the lack of a central consciousness (the protagonists are not mouthpieces for the playwright) and refusal to demonize even the most destructive-seeming characters a hallmark of Christian forgiveness.
Finally, though, Zeus overcame his cowardice and grappled with the monster.
The passages I quoted in the first round come from Chapter 7 of his book, "What Things Regulate," which begins with a reference to that most ivory-towered individual John Stuart Mill, the author of On Liberty , who articulated the famous "harm principle" with which libertarian thought of all stripes has grappled since he wrote.
McPherson grappled with the complexities and contradictions that plague us as black and white Americans in a way that no other writer I know of has done.