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

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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…

- 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. …

- Raymond Geuss