What's a Political Theorist to Do? Rawls, the Fair Value of the Basic Political Liberties, and the Collapse of the Distinction Between 'Ideal' and 'Nonideal' Theory

被引:5
作者
Orr, Susan [2 ]
Johnson, James [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Rochester, Social & Polit Theory, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[2] SUNY Coll Brockport, Polit Sci, Brockport, NY 14420 USA
来源
THEORIA | 2018年 / 65卷 / 154期
关键词
G. A Cohen; ideal theory; John Rawls; methodology; non-ideal theory; political institutions;
D O I
10.3167/th.2018.6515401
中图分类号
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
John Rawls famously distinguishes between ideal and non-ideal theory, according priority to the former. He depicts his own efforts to articulate the conception of justice as fairness as an instance of ideal theory. Subsequent political theorists have taken Rawls's distinction as a template for how we should understand the tasks of political theory. Yet they also have struggled to clarify the underlying distinction with notable lack of success. We argue that Rawls himself does not abide by the distinction between ideal and nonideal theory and that this affords a good reason to set the distinction aside as a distraction.
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