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Ideal and Non-Ideal Political Theory

Political Theory
Methods
Education
P178
Kai Spiekermann
The London School of Economics & Political Science
Esma Baycan Herzog
University of Geneva
Methods in Normative Political Theory

Building: Faculty of Social Sciences, Floor: 2, Room: FS212

Friday 09:00 - 10:40 CEST (09/09/2016)

Abstract

Various ideal/non-ideal distinctions have been advanced, focusing on different ways of dealing with non-compliance, feasibility constraints, abstraction, and so on. Are some types of ideal theory more suited to some kinds of normative research while others are more suited to other kinds.

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