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Why Precisely Political Philosophy?

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Philosophy is to remind us of the necessity in things: not just the necessities to which we have to resign ourselves, but those we can find splendid. —Robert Sokolowski, Moral… Click to show full abstract

Philosophy is to remind us of the necessity in things: not just the necessities to which we have to resign ourselves, but those we can find splendid. —Robert Sokolowski, Moral Action: A Phenomenological Study1 Now classical political philosophy has held that it is not any natural power that is first and properly the concern of the political art, but on the contrary, rational powers that are not determined to one particular action but are inclined indifferently to many. It is precisely their specification by free action—which cannot rely upon or imitate a principle of natural operation—that constitutes the proper art…

Keywords: political philosophy; precisely political; philosophy; action

Journal Title: Telos
Year Published: 2018

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