Moderate realist ideology critique.
Realist ideology critique (RIC) is a strand of political realism recently developed in response to concerns that realism is biased toward the status quo. RIC aims to debunk an individual's belief that a social institution is legitimate by revealing that the belief is caused by that very same institu...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 260 - 274 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2024
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