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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher

    Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.

    Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.



    source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    "Rooted in previous cultures" is such a nebulous and trite phrase as to render itself practically meaningless.

    The philosophical foundations of America are substantially different than the divine right of kings, or the Mandate of Heaven that constituted the basis for Medieval European states and the empires of East Asia.
    There are such a crusade - jihad multitude which must be liking those crooks on Capital Hill Federal Lynching KKK churchstate of hate fiefdom drug trafficking enforcement of SCOTUS Rehnquist Fourth Reich July 9/11 not so master race national religion diatribe Washington, D.C. born USA citizens are Islam to continue that Bicentennial celebration Washington, D.C. born USA citizens are Islam for their Christiananality pedophilia master plan "man is God" of a Christian Nation economics of "one nation under God with equal justice under law"....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher

    Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.

    Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.

    source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science
    Philosophy only creates speculation of what else is possible besides only evolving forward now in plain sight. Without philosophy there is no psychological class warfare between generation gaps and within each generation corrupting last generation to comply with ideas by the previous 4 as the universal constant pattern of behavior within this species native to this universal location, location, location.

    Power of suggesting now isn't the common denominator of life is eternally separated by the working biological results in plain sight of all the numerating ideas typecasting ancestries into stereo typical behavior recorded throughout history of people never accepting life in real time by choices of common behavioral patterns pretending to be exceptions to the natural process of genetics eternally separating reproductions left evolving forward now every franchise of reality uses same methodology to ways and means keeping everyone confused cradle to grave where 1% collect all the benefits of pitting everyone else against each other intellectually training each great great grandchild to follow their specific previous 4 generations gaps saving humanities.

    Humanities are socially engineered outcomes promising factually better days tomorrow than actual reproductions are living so far conceived to decomposed now.
    Every brain born has a lifetime conflict with ancestral displacement and intellectual social position within the population present. Why, life is a compounding connection between inception, conception, death, extinction life doesn't exceed what exists now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher

    Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.

    Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.



    source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science
    And critical theory disregards all those theories, and focuses narrowly on power and techniques of division.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JesusAI View Post
    And critical theory disregards all those theories, and focuses narrowly on power and techniques of division.
    What do you mean by "critical theory?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    What do you mean by "critical theory?"
    Did you google it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JesusAI View Post
    Did you google it?
    You used the term. Obviously you have no idea what it means.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    You used the term. Obviously you have no idea what it means.
    It's a philosophy of academic analysis which is anti-intellectual in it's essence.

    it asserts the only value is raw power, and that the only framework for all academic analysis is from within this supposition. in the final analysis THeir only intellectual m.o. is the ad hominem attack and changing definitions of words.

    See the frankfurt school in germany for the academic stars of this movement which is the propaganda overlay for totalitarian subjugation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JesusAI View Post
    It's a philosophy of academic analysis which is anti-intellectual in it's essence.

    it asserts the only value is raw power, and that the only framework for all academic analysis is from within this supposition. in the final analysis THeir only intellectual m.o. is the ad hominem attack and changing definitions of words.

    See the frankfurt school in germany for the academic stars of this movement which is the propaganda overlay for totalitarian subjugation.
    That is all false.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy." —Margaret Thatcher

    Commentators often suggest that Americans have no political philosophy. The standard line is that Americans are doers, not thinkers; pragmatists, not philosophers. On first glance, this seems insightful; however, close examination of the corpus of American political thought makes clear that this thought-action dichotomy is illusory. Born of English parents and developed in changing and increasingly heterogeneous contexts, American political thought has cycled around an essentially liberal core for nearly 400 years.

    Although Americans tend not to think explicitly in terms of abstract theory, our very institutions are informed by theory. In fact, as Garry Wills has noted, America is an “invented” country, the construct of men who consciously built political structures to govern a nation. The traditional concerns of political philosophy guided them: the nature of humans, the sources of legitimate social and political authority, the nature of, the role of the individual citizen, and the proper ends of social and governmental order. Thus, instead of being theory-poor, American institutions are rooted in, and have developed from, explicitly philosophical origins. Wittingly or not, this conditions American citizens: Our thought and actions are theory bound and guided.



    source credit Joseph F. Kobylka, professor of political science
    THIS IS A QUOTE OF SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK. USE QUOTATION MARKS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quincunx View Post
    THIS IS A QUOTE OF SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK. USE QUOTATION MARKS.
    There's one thing that is clear, and that is that your area of expertise is trolling.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    That is all false.
    Please tell us what critical theory "really is".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quincunx View Post
    THIS IS A QUOTE OF SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK..

    USE QUOTATION MARKS!
    Are you mentally ill?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Are you mentally ill?
    Why are you so dishonest?

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