Realism Verus Moralism and Related Dichotomies

Abstract

Despite a vibrant and growing literature on the contrast between realism and moralism in normative political philosophy, the precise nature of this dichotomy remains unclear, as does its relationship to adjacent dichotomies such as feasibility versus infeasibility and ideal versus non-ideal theory. Is one of these dichotomies more fundamental than the others in some important sense? How do they relate to older dichotomies, such as traditional versus critical theory? Which, if any, depend on a distinctively political form of normativity? What can scholars working on each of these dichotomies contribute to the rest of the field? These and other questions will be addressed by both defenders and critics of our current realist turn.

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