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“ But in so far as political philosophy aspires to educate the thoughtful citizenry in the reasons for its commitments (it should hold), Stebbing's book is, warts and all (and I have not developed my criticisms here), without parallel in early analytic philosophy. (No, I am not ignoring Popper or Russell's political essays!)” There’s one omission here that was, among the players familiar with Austria and Vienna (cough cough: circle), very well known and deeply republican while at the same time realist of sorts as well: Kelsey’s “Essence and Value of Democracy” (which also is unjustly forgotten and counted falsely as positivist —despite being precisely presented as an elaboration of the *ideals* of democracy (freedom and equality).

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Thank you for the suggestion!

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"the narrative that there 'was no political philosophy within analytic philosophy' before Rawls is a lie that keeps us in a self-imposed tutelage."

This seems to me to distort what people say about the important of Rawls's work in a pretty important way!

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