Author profile: Ryan Balot

Why is political theory still relevant?

Ryan Balot • Apr 23 2011 • Articles

It can’t be that everyone once considered political theory relevant and now finds it irrelevant, based on mysterious facts about today’s world. Practical men and women have always favoured action over thought. Long ago, Aristotle said that political activists find philosophers contemptible. So these questions are hardly innocent: they put political theory on the defensive. How should political theorists respond?

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