It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind.… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share. — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question. — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God.… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
