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These doctrines have not simply been refuted, or replaced, or
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historically superceded; they remain in many ways
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constitutive of our most basis outlooks and attitudes.
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They are very much alive with us today, right.
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So political philosophy is not just some kind of strange historical
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appendage attached to the trunk of political science;
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it is constitutive of its deepest problems.
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If you doubt the importance of the study of political ideas for politics,
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consider the works of a famous economist,
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John Maynard Keynes, everyone's heard of him.Keynes wrote in 1935.
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"The ideas of economists and political philosophers,
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both when they are right and when they are wrong,are more powerful