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Quotes from A Student’s Guide to Political Philosophy — Harvey Mansfield

born 1932 United States

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Today political science is often said to be ‘descriptive’ or ‘empirical,’ concerned with facts; political philosophy is called ‘normative’ because it expresses values. But these terms merely repeat in more abstract form the difference between political science, which seeks agreement, and political philosophy, which seeks the best.

A Student’s Guide to Political Philosophy (2001)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harvey Mansfield (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.