Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
The traditional view holds that political philosophy should aim at the truth. By contrast, Avner de Shalit argues that political philosophers should do something different. According to him, they should work in direct consultation with “the people” in order to think through their theories about political institutions. This article defends the traditional aim of truth-seeking and shows the mistakes in De Shalit’s alternative approach
Recommended Citation
van der Vossen, Bas 2021. Political Philosophy as Love of Wisdom, Australasian Philosophical Review 4(1): 23-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2021.1876412
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1
Copyright
Taylor & Francis
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Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Australasian Philosophical Review, volume 4, issue 1, in 2020. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.