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Context and Facts in Political Theory

Political Theory
Methods
Ethics
P067
Marta Wojciechowska
King's College London
Lars Moen
University of Vienna

Abstract

How important is the context in which we develop our political theories? What sort of facts are important to political philosophy? Should political philosophers be sensitive to data and to facts, or will such concerns inevitably lead to a conservative backward-looking normative theories.

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