S18E262 - What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Max Weber

In the third part of our series David and Paul Sagar explore what the German writer and sociologist Max Weber can teach us about the pitfalls of political life and political philosophy. Why is doing politics so hard? Why is it so hard to know what to do for the best when all the options are bad ones? How can we still do our best when the only means at our disposal is violence? And where does all this leave the prospects for lasting political change?

Next Time: Learning from Bernard Williams and Judith Shklar

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