Political Philosophy - Can You Have Both Sides of It?

I can see a world in which there's kind of an emotional truth and a rational one. And i agree entirely that if you're disposed to make a partcast about political philosophy, or participate in one,. You're probably the kind of person who thinksthat we are pretty good atrationalizing our beliefs so that they make sense. So yes, we like, we we have a tendency to think of it that way. It's not always there are contradictions. That said, you can reason with people even when they're in the grips of contradictions. In the case of historical figures, you can try to reconstruct the processes that thoughtful people did engage in. Same is true of lincoln