Why I'm in Political Theory

Political theory is not a discipline at all, rather than philosophy or history. A lot of the claims i'm making depend on empirical claims about human psychology that aren't part of the repertoire of philosophical argument to day. The reason i'm in politics is probably because it most closely resembles racky curtisdan where we have our own autonomous region as political theorists and can more or less do our own thing. We're doing pretty well in political theory, by contrast.

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