Raymond Geuss - Outside ethics (2009)

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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.

Raymond Geuss

One of Nietzsche's most important legacies to us … is his claim that it is desirable and possible to dismantle the Platonic apparatus of Forms, Absolute Truth, the Idea of the Good, etc. and its historical derivatives, such as Kant's transcendental philosophy, and that this can be done without fear of falling into relativism.

Raymond Geuss

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.

Raymond Geuss

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.

Raymond Geuss

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.

Raymond Geuss