عنوان

Utopophobia :

شابک

0691147167

شابک

0691197504

شابک

9780691147161

شابک

9780691197500

شابک اشتباه

9780691147161

عنوان اصلي

Utopophobia :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

on the limits (if any) of political philosophy /

نام نخستين پديدآور

David Estlund.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Princeton, New Jersey :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Princeton University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages)

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

"Throughout the history of political philosophy and politics more broadly a debate has raged about the proper place of idealism versus realism in our thinking about political principles and institutions. Within contemporary political philosophy, this debate has taken the form of what is called "ideal theory" versus "non-ideal theory." Non-ideal theorists have tried to shift the focus of political philosophy from theorizing about the nature of concepts like "justice" to questions about which feasible institutional and political changes would make a society, or the world, more just. But what if, the ideal theorist asks, justice is a standard that no society is likely ever to satisfy? Could we somehow even know this is the case before seriously considering what justice requires? And, if social justice were unrealistic, would that mean that understanding justice is without value or importance, and merely idle utopianism? In Utopophobia, David Estlund argues that the best reasons for thinking either that justice must be realistic, or for thinking that there is no point in understanding justice unless it could be realized, are not convincing. No particular theory of justice is offered or presupposed by Estlund in this book, nor is it argued that justice is indeed unrealizable-only that it could be, and that this possibility upsets common ways of proceeding in political thought. The book, thus, represents a critical engagement with important strands in traditional and contemporary political philosophy which suppose that a sound theory of justice, or even the enterprise of political philosophy generally, has the sole or overriding and defining task of contributing practical guidance toward greater social justice. Along the way, Estlund argues against several tempting views; that the "circumstances of justice," as understood by Hume and Rawls, imply that the very idea of social justice is grounded in unfortunate but realistic conditions of individual moral deficiency; that inquiry in political philosophy could have significant value only insofar as it guides to practical political action; and that understanding true justice would necessarily have practical value, at least as an ideal arrangement to be approximated"--

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

شماره انبار

22573/ctvj284vp

عنوان

Utopophobia

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780691147161

موضوع مستند نشده

Idealism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Justice (Philosophy)

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science-- Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Realism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Idealism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Justice (Philosophy)

موضوع مستند نشده

PHILOSOPHY / Political

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science-- Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Realism.

موضوع مستند نشده

PHI-- 005000

موضوع مستند نشده

PHI-- 019000

موضوع مستند نشده

POL-- 000000

موضوع مستند نشده

POL-- 010000

موضوع مستند نشده

PSY-- 000000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Estlund, David M.

تاريخ عمليات

20200822122756.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y