
Raymond Geuss on Realism in Political Philosophy
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The Importance of Political Realism in Politics
A good kind of political realism would reveal the wishful thinking that's within a style of thinking. Ideologies are slightly different from structures of wishful thinking, he says. In the case of an ideology I don't believe in the ideology because it conforms with a wish I have about myself.
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