In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action.
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowled… - Raymond Geuss
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowled…
- Raymond Geuss
In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Ce… - Raymond Geuss
In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Ce…
To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, delib… - Raymond Geuss
To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, delib…
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… - Raymond Geuss
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…
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… - Raymond Geuss
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…
Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, … - Raymond Geuss
Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, …
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question. - Raymond Geuss
Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.
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. … - Raymond Geuss
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. …
A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices… - Raymond Geuss
A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices…
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