“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, even if indirectly, on human action.” IfsWayBelieveHumansWould BeActionUnderstandingMistakeFiguresActiveRationalAbstractionItemsDiscussingHuman ActionsHuman Psyche Book:Philosophy and Real Politics Source: Philosophy and Real Politics
“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, or of why people do Y that Y is good.” PeopleBelieveSelfRealizingExplanationSufficient Author:Raymond Geuss
