It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right, the t….

Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true, or of why peop….

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential..

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimens….

We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we wish to evalu….

In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Ce….

Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowled….

When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. ….

The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political impl….

Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosoph….

A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices….

Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sens….

Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, ….

The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does n….

To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, delib….

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share..

Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question..