What role should (non-normative) facts such as people’s confined generosity and scarcity of resources play in the normative theorising of political philosophers? The chapters in this book investigate different aspects of this broad question. Political philosophers are often silent on questions of what types of facts are relevant, if any, for normative theory, and what methodological assumptions about agency and behaviour need to be made, if any such assumptions are necessary. However, due to recent debates among and between idealists, non-idealists and realists in political theory, the issue about the relation between facts and norms in political philosophy/theory is beginning to attract greater attention from political theorists/philosophers.The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
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What role should (non-normative) facts such as people’s confined generosity and scarcity of resources play in the normative theorising of political philosophers? The chapters in this book investigate different aspects of this broad question.
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IntroductionTheresa Scavenius and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen1. Fact-sensitive political theoryTheresa Scavenius2. Towards a democracy-centred ethicsAnnabelle Lever3. Facts, norms, and dignityPablo Gilabert4. Kant and the critique of the ethics-first approach to politicsChristian F. Rostbøll5. What Mr. Spock told the earthlings: the aims of political philosophy, action-guidingness and fact-dependencyKasper Lippert-Rasmussen6. The role of interpretation of existing practice in normative political argument Sune Lægaard7. How practices do not matterEva Erman and Niklas Möller
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ISBN
9780367548582
Publisert
2020-09-24
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Routledge
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331 gr
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234 mm
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156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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122

Biographical note

Theresa Scavenius, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Planning, University of Aalborg, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, PhD, Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.