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Political theory and practice

Political theory and practice

Thinking and doing

Author: Michael W Jackson

Couple of things

I am desperately seeking Deutschlandspiel .

I am desperately seeking Deutschlandspiel .

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on May 30, 2007Categories Practice2 Comments on Couple of things

Let’s talk canon!

Tarah asks, “I was wondering what qualified a political theorist as being one that is sufficiently noteworthy for you to write about?”

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on May 16, 2007Categories Theory1 Comment on Let’s talk canon!

The canon of political theory.

I thought it was time to take stock.

One of my ambitions as a political theorist is to publish on each theorist in the canon of political theory.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on April 29, 2007Categories Theory2 Comments on The canon of political theory.

Mystery solved.

The top three hundred sounds good to me, but not to the VC.

I got this unbidden email a few days ago. At first I thought it had something to with this blog, though I found that unlikely.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on April 9, 2007Categories Practice

Euthyphro, piety, logic, and Socrates

A philosophic game.

Have fun with this game.
I am told that Don Baker has put the Euthrypro Dialog1 on line a:
http://donbarker.com/dialog1/

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on April 9, 2007Categories Theory

The canon of political theory.

I thought it was time to take stock.

One of my ambitions as a political theorist is to publish on each theorist in the canon of political theory.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on April 3, 2007Categories Theory

Chapter Sixteen: The End and the Beginning.

These books are the X-Files.

Plato and the philosopher’s phone: the essay.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on March 31, 2007Categories Theory

Chapter Fifteen: Aristotle the kitten and slavery.

A very simple exposition of Aristotle on happiness is Jean Vanier, A Guide to the Good Life: Happiness, Aristotle for the New Century (2001).

What shall we do with all our leisure? Keep busy!

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on March 27, 2007Categories Theory

Utopia 1

Utopia understands the present through the future.

Utopia in theory and practice. It’s all in the black.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on March 6, 2007Categories Practice1 Comment on Utopia 1

Jackson in a hat!

The sky did fall. It is a risk revealing this hat. It is probably an offence to be in possession of a fire warden’s hat when not a fire warden!

A theorist and nothing but.

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Author Michael W JacksonPosted on February 25, 2007Categories Theory1 Comment on Jackson in a hat!

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