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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.”

Quote by Raymond Geuss

Book:Outside Ethics

Work

This book delves into the realm of ethics, examining moral dilemmas and philosophical questions that extend beyond conventional ethical frameworks. more

Author

Raymond Geuss is a renowned philosopher, born in 1946. His research focuses on political philosophy and moral philosophy, critically analyzing ideas such as liberalism, socialism, and Marxism. more

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Book:Outside Ethics

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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 of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.”

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Book:Philosophy and Real Politics

Source: Philosophy and Real Politics

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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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Book:Philosophy and Real Politics

Source: Philosophy and Real Politics

“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.”

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Book:Philosophy and Real Politics

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“The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.”

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“To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, deliberation, choice, decision, etc. that constitute the substance of our political life are not operating. The same is true of overwhelming aversion. The person being tortured who simply wants it to stop, period, is also not a good model for an agent acting politically.”

Source: Philosophy and Real Politics