Raymond Geuss Quote

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.


Neither History Nor Praxis, pp. 38-39. - Outside Ethics (2005)


A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices ...

A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices ...

A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices ...

A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices ...