The Nature of Political Theory

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The Nature of Political Theory ANDREW VINCENT 1 ...

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Preface The original idea for this book started life some ten years ago. At the outset, it was envisaged as a short text, but su ...

vi Preface Haakonssen, Duncan Ivison, Barry Jones, Roy Jones, Rex Martin, Peter Nicholson, Raymond Plant, Andrew Sharp, Vicki Sp ...

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1 An Eclectic Subject Foundations Theory and Politics Pattern of the Book PART ONE 2 We Have a Firm Foundation Classical No ...

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1 An Eclectic Subject The basic question underpinning this book is—what do we think we are doing when we practise political theo ...

2 The Nature of Political Theory hand, the objective or practical world of politics, was set in some kind of foundational stone— ...

An Eclectic Subject 3 be a subject for theory to investigate and reflect on. In other words, this book is an appeal to a more th ...

4 The Nature of Political Theory and immortality. This form of metaphysical foundation not only speaks of the reality behind app ...

An Eclectic Subject 5 interactive discourse consists of the type of elucidation and argumentation in which we suspend immediate ...

6 The Nature of Political Theory older classical sense of foundational metaphysics (as comprehensive and perfection- ist). Neo-K ...

An Eclectic Subject 7 Energy, gravitation, or supply and demand curves, for example, cannot actually be seen. Peirce comments th ...

8 The Nature of Political Theory such as moral philosophy or philosophical anthropology. In fact, it is arguable that moral phil ...

An Eclectic Subject 9 Aristotelianism, Platonism, Cartesianism, Kantianism, Hegelianism, phenomeno- logy, Marxism, pragmatism, p ...