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Can political realism be action-guiding?
- Source :
- Critical Review of International Social & Political Philosophy; Jun2023, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p528-553, 26p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Various political realists claim the superior 'action-guiding' qualities of their way of approaching normative political theory, as compared to 'liberal moralism'. This paper subjects that claim to critique. I first clarify the general idea of action-guidance, and identify two types of guidance that a political theory might try to offer – 'prescriptive action-guidance' and 'orienting action-guidance' – together with the conditions that must be met before we can understand such guidance as having been successfully offered. I then go on to argue that if we take realist understandings of political psychology seriously, then realist attempts to offer action-guidance appear to fail by realism's own lights. I demonstrate this by means of engagement with a variety of different realist theorists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POLITICAL realism
POLITICAL psychology
POLITICAL science
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13698230
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Critical Review of International Social & Political Philosophy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163741509
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2020.1774855