12 Questions
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
ideology
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 ______.
prescriptions
Ideology is not imperfect political ______.
philosophy
He stresses, in fact, that the notion of the political cannot be formed independently of the ______.
ideological
According to Freeden, what is one problem with Anglo-American liberal political philosophy since the mid-twentieth century?
It has tried to open up a chasm between itself and political ideology
According to Freeden, what can an overemphasis on synchronic abstracted reason and logic lead to?
A virtually semi private professional academic language
According to Freeden, how does his argument differ from earlier theories about ideology?
It does not see ideology as blurring or distorting the real
According to Freeden, what is the advantage of studying ideology from a morphological perspective?
It allows for a historical analysis of language changes
What is one characteristic of ideologies, according to the text?
They contain a mixture of emotion and reason
What does Freeden argue about the relationship between political theory, political philosophy, and ideology?
Political theory contains both political philosophy and ideology as sub-categories
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