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“One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.” quote by Raymond Geuss — Download Open image

“One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.”

Raymond Geuss

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It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right, the true, or the rational in complete abstraction from the way in which these items figure in the motivationally active parts of the human psyche, and particularly in abstraction from the way in which they impinge,…

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In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features…

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Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a…

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We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we…

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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,…

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The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

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Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge…

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When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other…

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Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that,…

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Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.

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It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the…

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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.…

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