Raymond Geuss Quotes

• Preguntar cuál es la pregunta, y por qué se hace la pregunta, es siempre hacer una pregunta pertinente.

  Raymond Geuss

  Pertinent Questions, Asking, Pertinent

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.17, Princeton University Press

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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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  Philosophy, Political, Prejudice

  "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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• En algunos casos centrales e importantes, ... la existencia de relaciones de poder específicas en la sociedad producirá una apariencia de un tipo particular. Ciertas características de la sociedad que son meramente locales y contingentes, y que se mantienen en existencia sólo por el continuo ejercicio del poder, llegarán a parecer como si fueran características universales, necesarias, invariables o naturales de todas las formas de vida social humana, o como si surgieran espontáneamente y sin coacción por la libre acción humana.

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  Exercise, Important, Action

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right, the true, or the rational in complete abstraction from the way in which these items figure in the motivationally active parts of the human psyche, and particularly in abstraction from the way in which they impinge, even if indirectly, on human action.

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  Mistake, Believe, Understanding

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.28, Princeton University Press

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• Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.

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  Perspective, Finals, Viewpoints

  "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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• 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. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.

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  Hate, Two, Wish

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. ... Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.

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  Agents, Might, Way

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.

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  Historical, Principles, Needs

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• Se supone que siempre hay una única dimensión para evaluar a las personas y sus acciones que tiene prioridad canónica. Esta es la dimensión de la evaluación moral; se supone que "bueno/malo" siempre triunfa sobre cualquier otra forma de evaluación, pero esta es una suposición, probablemente el resultado de la larga historia de la cristianización y luego la descristianización gradual de Europa, que no es necesario hacer. La evaluación no tiene por qué ser una evaluación moral, sino que puede incluir valoraciones de la eficacia, la simplicidad, la perspicacia, el atractivo estético, etcétera.

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  Mean, Assessment, Europe

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?

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  Philosophy, Political, Understanding

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• La observación general de que una teoría política es, entre otras cosas, una intervención partidista, está bien tomada. Así que la cuestión de la implicación política real de una teoría no puede excluirse como, en principio, irrelevante.

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  Taken, Political, Principles

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• 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 people do Y that Y is good.

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  Believe, Self, People

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we wish to evaluate the world "correctly," i.e., in according with that it truly is, and the desire to know is directed at determining what the world truly is.

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  Judging, Wish, Desire

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• The Kantian philosophy is no more than at best a half-secularized version of such a theocratic ethics, with "Reason" in the place of God. This does not amount to much more than a change of names.

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  Philosophy, Names, Doe

  Raymond Geuss (2009). “Outside Ethics”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

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  Ideas, Pseudo, Problem

  Raymond Geuss (2009). “Outside Ethics”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• En la medida en que la atracción que me mueve es realmente irresistible, como una adicción invenciblemente fuerte, no funcionan los procedimientos normales de evaluación, deliberación, elección, decisión, etc. que constituyen la sustancia de nuestra vida política. Lo mismo ocurre con la aversión abrumadora. La persona torturada que simplemente quiere que se acabe, y punto, tampoco es un buen modelo de agente que actúe políticamente.

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  Strong, Moving, Addiction

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

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  Philosophy, Issues, Political

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.54, Princeton University Press

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