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James Harrigan — Can We Have Principled Politicians?

The Curious Task

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The Importance of Principle in Politics

Is it that they are being guided by bad principles or no principles at all? Do people come to the table and say, I'm a nefarious person, I have these bad principles. What's operating just under the surface is something that the Hobbesian vision of human nature might have taken into account a little better. Politicians are deeply self interested people.

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