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A Note on David Easton's Approach to Political Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

R. C. Pratt*
Affiliation:
McGill University
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Notes and Memoranda
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1954

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References

1 The Political System: An Inquiry into the State of Political Science (New York, 1953)Google Scholar, reviewed in this Journal, XX, no. 2, May, 1954, 272–4.

2 The Political System, 233.

3 Ibid., 231.

4 Ibid., 255.

5 Ibid., 262–3.

6 Ibid., 247.

7 To have the means of determining the “value” of conflicting value preferences means ipso facto to possess an acceptable standard. It is, however, specifically with cases where no such standard exists that the quotation is concerned.

8 This last point is a purely linguistic one. Any value which is defended by reference to another value is Q.E.D., not a primary value.