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Raymond Geuss war bis zu seiner Pensionierung Professor für Philosophie an der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Cambridge in England. Raymond Geuss lehrte Philosophie in Heidelberg, Chicago, Princeton, Hamburg, Frankfurt und war Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Seine jüngsten Arbeiten haben den Schwerpunkt politische Philosophie.

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✵ 10. Dezember 1946
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“Although Aristotle may have been right to claim that a desire to know is part of the fundamental constitution of human nature, … Nietzsche is also correct to emphasize that the impulse to evaluate our surroundings, our fellows, and ourselves is at least as deeply rooted in our human nature as is any natural “desire to know.””

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Raymond Geuss buch Philosophy and Real Politics

“Der Mensch ist ein abschätzendes Tier.”
Quelle: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), pp. 38-39.

“Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.”

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Quelle: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 17.

“The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.”

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Quelle: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), Chapter 2.

“When we use a tool in everyday life, it usually remains a detached instrument under my control and activated only when, where, and how I decide. … In contrast, conceptual innovations often “stick,” escape our control and become part of reality itself. Once Hobbes invents the idea of the “state” this idea can come into contact with real social forces with unforeseeable results. The “tool” develops a life of its own, and can become an inextricable part of the fabric of life itself.”

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Quelle: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 49.

“The point of one of [Rawls’] main constructions—the introduction of the “veil of ignorance”—is precisely to exclude from consideration empirical information that might prejudice the overriding normative force of the outcome. It is, then, extremely striking, not to say astounding, to the lay reader that the complex theoretical apparatus of Theory of Justice, operating through over 500 pages of densely argued text, eventuates in a constitutional structure that is a virtual replica (with some extremely minor deviations) of the arrangements that exist in the United States.”

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“Liberalism and its Discontents,” p. 22.
Outside Ethics (2005)

“It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right, the true, or the rational in complete abstraction from the way in which these items figure in the motivationally active parts of the human psyche, and particularly in abstraction from the way in which they impinge, even if indirectly, on human action.”

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Quelle: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 28.

“Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and empirical knowledge and their evaluative systems so as both to locate themselves and their projects in some larger imaginative structure that makes sense to them. … Furthermore, many modern agents would like it to be the case that the form of orientation which their life has is, if not true, at least compatible with the best available knowledge.”

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Philosophy and Real Politics (2008).
Philosophy and Real Politics (2008)

“Either there is or there is not a mechanism for enforcing human rights. If there is not, it would seem that calling them 'rights' simply means that we think it would (morally) be a good idea if they were enforced, although, of course, they are not. A 'human right' is an inherently vacuous conception, and to speak of 'human rights' is a kind of puffery or white magic.”

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Pg 144
History and Illusion in Politics (2001)

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