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Raymond Geuss on Realism in Political Philosophy

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The Causal History of Homosexual Desires

Foucault looked at how people arrived to that conception of a homosexual or some other category of ways of being. And by showing the history, the causal history, it eliminated any sense that this grouping of certain characteristics is somehow inevitable. As you know, the Thebans in the ancient world had a special military band which was called the Sacred Band - groups of homosexual partners who fought together.

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