Rawlsian Theory and the Circumstances of Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6352363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Mason (0000-0003-4578-1800, University of Southampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 658-683 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591710372862 |
| OpenAlex | W2109196668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 15 |
Can Rawlsian theory provide us with an adequate response to the practical question of how we should proceed in the face of widespread and intractable disagreement over matters of justice? Recent criticism of ideal theorizing might make us wonder whether this question highlights another way in which ideal theory can be too far removed from our non-ideal circumstances to provide any practical guidance. Further reflection on it does not show that ideal theory is redundant, but it does indicate that there is a need for a nonideal theory that does not consist simply in an account of how to apply the principles which are yielded by ideal theory to non-ideal circumstances in the light of what is feasible and an assessment of the costs of implementation. Indeed any non-ideal theory that can adequately address this question will have to be partially autonomous, drawing on a notion of legitimacy that is rather different to the one which lies at the heart of Rawlsian ideal theory
Criticism · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Ideal (ethics · Ideal theory · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Wonder · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Rawls on Ideal and Nonideal Theory
Living Together
Justice, Feasibility, and Ideal Theory
On Realist Legitimacy
Realism against Legitimacy
An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy
Why strong moral cosmopolitanism requires a world-state
Fact of the matter
Normative behaviourism as a solution to four problems in realism and non-ideal theory
Kant and the critique of the ethics-first approach to politics
Williams and Rawls in Philadelphia
Degrees of Legitimacy
The Incompleteness of Ideal Theory
The Problem of Historical Rectification for Rawlsian Theory
What Is the Point of Justice
Deliberative democracy between moralism and realism
Jeremy Waldron and the Circumstances of Politics
Real Politics and the Concept of Political Corruption
Realism, Liberalism and Non-ideal Theory Or, Are there Two Ways to do Realistic Political Theory
Political Legitimacy in the Real Normative World
Realism in Normative Political Theory
Political Legitimacy and Democracy
Rawls’s Political Liberalism
Reciprocity and Reasonable Disagreement
Democratic Authority
Towards Justice and Virtue
What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?
Ideal Theory in Theory and Practice
On the Apparent Paradox of Ideal Theory
Pluralism and Stability in Liberal Theory
Designing Constitutions
Justice in Ideal Theory
Religious Democracy and the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy
Ideal and Nonideal Theory
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |