Citations:Janus-faced


 * 2005: Raymond Geuss, Outside Ethics, page 13 (Princeton University Press; ISBN 069112342X, 978‒0691123424)
 * Since at the latest the middle of the nineteenth century, then, “liberalism” refers both to a relatively abstract theoretical structure — a collection of characteristic arguments, ideals, values, concepts — and to a social reality, a political movement that is at least partially institutionalized in organized parties. Janus-faced historical phenomena of this kind that encompass both conceptual or theoretical elements and real social forces pose special difficulties for traditional forms of philosophy.