“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.” HumansReasonPhilosophyHelpingPoliticalNaturalStudyDangerSucceedDemandMajorsPrejudiceMethodLocalsBiasPolitical Philosophy Author:Raymond Geuss
“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 of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action.” IfsHumansKindImportantSeemsActionFormCertainSocialNaturalExistenceCasesProduceParticularExerciseUniversalRelationAppearanceLocalsFeaturesSocial LifeHuman Actions Book:Philosophy and Real Politics Source: Philosophy and Real Politics
