31 | Raymond Geuss: Realism in Political Theory
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Relationship Between Political Philosophy and Ideology
i think he's drawn to ideology critique, unfashionable though it might be, right? Because he recognizes that there's a real effectivity in the political register or so. He says things like, hey, like ye peop sometimes are confused about what even they want. And if you ask them what they want, they're going to spit out a bunch of contradictory nonsense and that plays a role in determining how they participate in constructing social and political reality. A realist political philosophy has to take that seriously,. You cannot just be like, well, if everyone was rational, they, well, who are you talking about? Those people don't exist. They're just not real,
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