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Vagueness can be functional, allowing latitude for ______, which is often a crucial prerequisite for political activity
Vagueness can be functional, allowing latitude for ______, which is often a crucial prerequisite for political activity
interpretation
Political theory is seen as a capacious category containing political philosophy and ______ as sub-categories
Political theory is seen as a capacious category containing political philosophy and ______ as sub-categories
ideology
Ideologies also contain a mixture of emotion and reason and occasionally flawed logic and ______
Ideologies also contain a mixture of emotion and reason and occasionally flawed logic and ______
vagueness
Freeden takes the primary functions of political philosophy as justifying, clarifying the consistency, truth and logicality of political theories and evaluating ethical ______.
Freeden takes the primary functions of political philosophy as justifying, clarifying the consistency, truth and logicality of political theories and evaluating ethical ______.
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Ideology is not imperfect political ______.
Ideology is not imperfect political ______.
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He stresses, in fact, that the notion of the political cannot be formed independently of the ______.
He stresses, in fact, that the notion of the political cannot be formed independently of the ______.
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According to Freeden, what is one problem with Anglo-American liberal political philosophy since the mid-twentieth century?
According to Freeden, what is one problem with Anglo-American liberal political philosophy since the mid-twentieth century?
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According to Freeden, what can an overemphasis on synchronic abstracted reason and logic lead to?
According to Freeden, what can an overemphasis on synchronic abstracted reason and logic lead to?
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According to Freeden, how does his argument differ from earlier theories about ideology?
According to Freeden, how does his argument differ from earlier theories about ideology?
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According to Freeden, what is the advantage of studying ideology from a morphological perspective?
According to Freeden, what is the advantage of studying ideology from a morphological perspective?
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What is one characteristic of ideologies, according to the text?
What is one characteristic of ideologies, according to the text?
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What does Freeden argue about the relationship between political theory, political philosophy, and ideology?
What does Freeden argue about the relationship between political theory, political philosophy, and ideology?
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