What is Political Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10692367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew T Jeffers (0000-0002-5739-1204, Georgia State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 785-788 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqab066 |
| OpenAlex | W4206307340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In his recent book, What is Political Philosophy?, Larmore frames the question of political philosophy as a battle between two distinct approaches, moralism and realism. Under the moralist conception, political philosophy is fundamentally a matter of extending standard moral reasoning to the larger political context. Specifically, moralists leverage their personal intuitions and favoured principles of justice to draft a blueprint for constructing a comprehensive vision of the ideal society. By contrast, realists are not primarily concerned with justice, but with the problem of violence, disagreement, and therefore how to ensure social cooperation. Under the realist conception in the vein of Hobbes and Williams, morality is not prior to politics, but a separate normative domain. Larmore explores and adjudicates the struggle between these competing visions by weighing the arguments of their chief exemplars, G.A. Cohen for moralism and Bernard Williams for realism. In a refreshing reprieve from much contemporary political...
Economic Justice · Epistemology · Morality · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · Vision · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2023 (45) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |