Raymond Geuss Quotes

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

Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.

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.

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.