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A god was always a form of sportsman too, and the sportsman – especially the one celebrated in a hymn of praise and crowned with a laurel wreath – was always also a god of sorts. Hence the athlete’s body, which unifies beauty and discipline into a calm readiness for action, offers itself as one of the most understandable and convincing manifestations of authority.
You Must Change Your Life
Peter Sloterdijk
If we generalize from the pollution example, we can complete the translation as follows: (PIP1*) It is collectively rational for most generations to cooperate: (almost) every generation prefers the outcome produced by everyone cooperating over the outcome produced by no one cooperating. (PIP2*) It is individually rational for all generations not to cooperate: when each generation has the power to decide whether or not it will cooperate, each generation prefers not to cooperate, whatever the others do.
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
If ideologies exist, that is, if the term has any real use at all, then it would seem that a political theory or political philosophy could be related to a given ideology in at least two distinct ways. One possibility would be that a political philosophy could play a progressive role in combating ideological illusion, such as when the philosophy in question demonstrates the dependence of certain beliefs or desires on the continued existence of particular configurations of power that would otherwise remain hidden. This is philosophy as “criticism of ideology.” A second possibility is that a political theory or philosophy itself played an ideological role in society in that it fostered certain common ideological illusions, made them more difficult to detect, or created new ones, e.g., the idea that New Labour could represent a Third Way, or that all people in every society everywhere aspire before all else to a particular kind of “democratic” political culture.
Philosophy and Real Politics
Raymond Geuss
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