Theory, Ideal Theory and the Theory of Ideals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6349754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Hamlin (0000-0001-5403-5733, University of Manchester), Zofia Stemplowska (University of Warwick) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-62 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-9299 • E-ISSN: 1478-9302 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1478-9302.2011.00244.x |
| OpenAlex | W2121920505 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 88 |
| References cited | 31 |
The recent prominence of the ideal/non-ideal debate is largely due to the fact that it offers a vocabulary in which to diagnose what many see as a key problem of political theory: its relative unwillingness to provide solutions to urgent problems facing people here and now; or for people as they are rather than as they should be. The primary aim of this article is to offer an improved understanding of the territory that the ideal/non-ideal debate relates to
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The Republican Dilemma
Rawls on Ideal and Nonideal Theory
Utopias and Comparative Assessments of Justice
A Defence of Robust Idealism in Political Philosophy
Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint
Strategies of Justice
Structural Injustice
Human Dignity and Social Justice
Living Together
Justice, Feasibility, and Ideal Theory
Assessing Non-intrinsic Limitarianism
Political Ideals and the Feasibility Frontier
Confucian Ethics and Labor Rights
Realism against Legitimacy
Por que uma teoria ideal da justiça
Social insurance, mutualistic insurance and genetic information
What Do We Want? To Eliminate Gender! When Do We Want It? Later
Pursuing social progress
Stability and disruptive speech
Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy
Republicanism as critique of liberalism
Hybrid theories, psychological plausibility, and the human/animal divide
The nature and significance of the political ideal of the Rule of Law
Scientific Models and Political Theory
Social Reform in a Complex World
Non-Ideal Foundations for Preference-Based AI Alignment
From ideal to anti-ideal theory
Can Pragmatists be Institutionalists? John Dewey Joins the Non-ideal/Ideal Theory Debate
Ideas of justice and reconstructions of Confucian justice
Provisional Sufficientarianism
Towards a broader climate ethics
Disabling ideal theory
Ideal vs. Non‐ideal Theory
The evidence-based policy movement and political idealism
Respect the Author
Political realism meets civic republicanism
Social relations in social justice
Normative behaviourism as a solution to four problems in realism and non-ideal theory
Against institutional conservatism
A realistic conception of politics
Fact-sensitive political theory
Towards a democracy-centred ethics
How should we do political theory? Reading Rawls on method
Justice in a non-ideal world
Political realism and the relationship between ideal and non-ideal theory
The case for methodological naturalisation
Dog-whistling and democracy
Psychological Constraints on Egalitarianism
Motivational Facts, Legitimacy, and the Justification of Political Ideals
Respect in Neo-Republicanism
Is Approximation of an Ideal Defensible
What Should We Say to Denmark? Mentalism as an Essential Complement to Behavourism
Political Integrity and Dirty Hands
Rawls’s Ideal Theory
Reflections on a Crisis
Bright Lines in Juvenile Justice
What Is the Point of Justice
Navigating by the North Star
O caminho para o consenso – análise da crítica de Waldron a Rawls sobre desacordos políticos
Rescuing sufficientarianism from itself
Painted scenes’ or ‘empty pageants’? Superficiality and depth in (realist) political thought
The logic of idealization in political theory
The logical foundations of constitutional democracy between legal positivism and natural law theory
Puzzled by Idealizations and Understanding Their Functions
Advancing Justice in Society
Feasibility as a Constraint on ‘Ought All-Things-Considered’, But not on ‘Ought as a Matter of Justice’
When Are Carbon Border Adjustment Measures Just
Why expanding capabilities does not necessarily imply reducing injustice
What Kind of Theory Should Theory on Education for Human Flourishing Be
Distributive Epistemic Justice in Science
Assessing ideal theories
Beyond Ideal Theory
Does “Ought” Imply “Feasible
Being realistic and demanding the impossible
Limiting lifetime inheritances and gifts
Against Ideal Guidance
Realism, Liberalism and Non-ideal Theory Or, Are there Two Ways to do Realistic Political Theory
Bridging Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory
Between Critical and Normative Theory
The challenges of ideal theory and appeal of secular apocalyptic thought
An ideology critique of nonideal methodology
Nonideal theory and compliance—A clarification
How to do realistic political theory (and why you might want to)
Pluralist welfare egalitarianism and the expensive tastes objection
Reconstituting Realism
The feasibility issue
Political Philosophy's Methodological Moment and the Rise of Public Political Philosophy
Imaginarios Y Aplicación De La Justicia Cincuenta Años Después De La Teoría De La Justicia
Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility
Political philosophy for Earthlings
Towards Justice and Virtue
Rescuing Justice and Equality
The Feasibility Issue
Political philosophy for Earthlings
What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?
A Theory of Justice
Ideal and Nonideal Theory
Reflections on the Transition from Ideal to Non-Ideal Theory
What’s Ideal About Ideal Theory
Ideal Theory in Theory and Practice
The Problem of Utopianism
Abstraction, Idealization and Ideology in Ethics
On the Apparent Paradox of Ideal Theory
Ideal Theory” as Ideology
The Value of Philosophy in Nonideal Circumstances
The Importance of Defining the Feasible Set
Justice in Ideal Theory
Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy
Facts and Principles
Institutions and the Demands of Justice
Ideal and Nonideal Theory
Realism in political theory
What is to be done? Political theory and political realism
Just Constraints
Political Ideals and Political Practice
The Idea of Justice
| Unique citing works | 88 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 88 |