31 | Raymond Geuss: Realism in Political Theory
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English - February 07, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 195 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture philosophy politics marxism culture entertainment socialism theory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode we work through some of the ideas laid out in Part 1 of Raymond Geuss’ 2008 Philosophy and Real Politics. It’s a refreshingly clear-eyed argument for what he calls the realist approach in political philosophy, which tries to attend to the messiness of actually existing societies, the opaque and invested people who make them up, and the shifting, contradictory values they hold. We’re talking Hobbes meets Lenin meets Nietzsche here, folks. Leave your rational decision theory and normative idealism at the door.
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References:
Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
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