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Final Thoughts: Rejoinder to Phillip Hansen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2016

Frank Cunningham
Frank Cunningham*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto and Simon Fraser University
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Urban Studies ProgramSimon Fraser University515 W. Hastings St, Unit 2100 Vancouver, B.C. V6B 5K3, email: [email protected]
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As I use the term, philosophy is critical thinking about fundamental matters, where “critical” includes identifying and evaluating justifications for beliefs about fundamental matters or proposing and defending such justifications. Like the notion of philosophy itself, what counts as fundamental is also contestable, but Phillip Hansen's characterization of its being “about how humans ought to live, about what is good for them” is an apt example. Macpherson certainly does attend to this and similar topics and he castigates his contemporary political scientists for neglecting them.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 49 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 573 - 574
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 2016 

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References

Kant, Immanuel. 2003 [1788]. The Critique of Pure Reason, London: Palgrave Macmillan.Google Scholar