We can distinguish three styles of political philosophy: abstract, normative theorizing, political realism, and a diagnostic practice. I argue that the third is the most fundamental in that it concerns the epistemological conditions of political thinking.
This is a power point file for a lecture to given at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, on April 21, 2018, and then in revised form at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, on April 27. Click on image to advance.