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The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.

— Raymond Geuss Philosophy and Real Politics (2008)

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

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A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one’s own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

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