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Political Utopias - Contemporary Debates (Hardcover)
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Political Utopias - Contemporary Debates (Hardcover)
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Political theory, from antiquity to the present, has been divided
over the relationship between the requirements of justice and the
limitations of persons and institutions to meet those requirements.
Some theorists hold that a theory of justice should be utopian or
idealistic-that the derivation of the correct principles of justice
should not take into account human and institutional limitations.
Others insist on a realist or non-utopian view, according to which
feasibility-facts about what is possible given human and
institutional limitations-is a constraint on principles of justice.
In recent years, the relationship between the ideal and the real
has become the subject of renewed scholarly interest. This
anthology aims to represent the contemporary state of this classic
debate. By and large, contributors to the volume deny that the
choice between realism and idealism is binary. Rather, there is a
continuum between realism and idealism that locates these extremes
of each view at opposite poles. The contributors, therefore, tend
to occupy middle positions, only leaning in the ideal or non-ideal
direction. Together, their contributions not only represent a wide
array of attractive positions in the new literature on the topic,
but also collectively advance how we understand the difference
between idealism and realism itself.
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