The Nature of Political Theory

70 The Nature of Political Theory philosophy with ideology. He suggests the utter uselessness of ‘the distinction between “ideol ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 71 One important facet of these portrayals of political philosophy is again the separation from both p ...

72 The Nature of Political Theory of interpretation. An ideology is therefore viewed as human ‘thought-behaviour’ embodied in or ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 73 For Freeden, ideologies do contain an odd mixture of emotion and reason and occasionally some flawe ...

74 The Nature of Political Theory However, given the totality of the discussion in Part One, it is difficult to know precisely w ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 75 The nature of the non-political (e.g. the realm of the family or the economy) tends to mutate betw ...

76 The Nature of Political Theory A. H. Birch. However, this particular view was also resisted vigorously by both Marxist and re ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 77 history provided the most consistent moral panorama able to satisfy a variety of intellectual, emot ...

78 The Nature of Political Theory really established. It also later figured in debates about the nature of republicanism, see Ja ...

We Have a Firm Foundation 79 can be achieved only by distinguishing or isolating certain properties in the subject matter studie ...

80 The Nature of Political Theory Geoffrey Brennan, view Thomas Hobbes as a more viable predecessor, see Gauthier (1986: 186) an ...

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3 Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred Part One outlined the basic foundational components of the discipline of political theory d ...

84 The Nature of Political Theory importance of certain philosophical methods and the universality of their application to issue ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 85 of both concepts and speech. This close, finely honed attention to concepts made it less o ...

86 The Nature of Political Theory The earliest and most vociferous expression of this new found confidence of ana- lytic philoso ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 87 In summary, therefore, for logical positivism, analytic propositions werea priori claims t ...

88 The Nature of Political Theory much a philosophical doctrine, as a ladder, which once one has ascended and realized what has ...

Foundations Shaken but Not Stirred 89 rigid categories of the analytic and synthetic—combined with verification—ordinary languag ...