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 (DIR) Post #9ghAVAbYoHdpBOa3NY by willtochaos@pleroma.soykaf.com
       2019-03-12T12:50:58.746756Z
       
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       "Although the ideological approach to politics is widespread, I do not claim that all contemporary conservatives, feminists, liberals, nationalists, socialists, and so forth are ideologues. Many people are strongly committed to political views without commitment to their ideological versions. Politics need not be ideological, although it ofen becomes so when non-ideological policies are consistently challenged. Then their defenders need to justify them, and this often, but not always, leads them to appeal to the ideological version of their previously non-ideological view.Ideologues often combine their view with moralism and thereby reinforce the political appeal of the ideal embedded in their ideologies by the claim that following it is an overriding moral requirement. They routinely claim that their ideology’s hierarchy of values is not just political but also moral, and that it is the key to the improvement of society and individual lives. If the policies that follow from an ideology are justifed both by their necessity for solving pressing political problems and by being requirements of morality, then ideologues and their followers can see themselves as doing not only what needs to be done, but also what it is morally obligatory to do."John Kekes, The Nature of Philosophical Problems
       
 (DIR) Post #9ghAnDqTV5SgRhAGTw by willtochaos@pleroma.soykaf.com
       2019-03-12T12:54:14.429902Z
       
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       Of course, political philosophy should have a moral component that is abstract (the common good) without falling into moralism. It should remain pragmatic and realistic without falling into whatever a bad reading of Machiavelli is.