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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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It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right,…

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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.…

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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…

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

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