Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

by Edward Hall

Book Overview

Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, driven by an effort to draw a picture of an ideal political society, is familiar from the approach of John Rawls and others. Or is political philosophy more useful if it takes the world as it is, acknowledging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022671831X
• ISBN13: 9780226718316
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"