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> Politics is prior to philosophy.
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>CB: This seems the opposite of your position in the thread on
>Russian/Soviet philosophy struggles.
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Not at all. Democratic politics needs no philosophical justification, is what I am saying here. There I was saying that if you want to know why Soviet philosophy was was bad and boring, you need only look to the fact that in undemocrtaic conditions there prevailing, philosophers were required by authoritarian constraint to say things they didn't believe in, or worse, that they did. The two points are connected by the thought that democratic politicsd also makes for better philosiohy, although it does not deoend on philosophy.
jks
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