A Constructivist Account of Political Normativity.
This paper is a defence of the view that, contrary to a recent trend in the literature, there is a distinctively political kind of normativity. Four steps are taken to establish that conclusion. First, I introduce a constructivist methodology for practical philosophy, one that is focused on the prob...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 65 - 76 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=183893316&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 183893316 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01677411 NM2 jtl: Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy issn: 01677411 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2025 vid: 44 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 183893316 10.1007/s11245-024-10118-8 ppf: 65 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 733KB tig: atl: A Constructivist Account of Political Normativity. aug: au: Sommavilla, Vitor affil: https://ror.org/00p9vpz11 Department of Philosophy, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil su: Philosophy methodology Political science Direct action Normativity (Ethics) Religious studies Constructivism (Philosophy) sug: subj: Philosophy methodology Political science Direct action Normativity (Ethics) Religious studies Constructivism (Philosophy) keyword: Collective obligation Constructivism Philosophy and Religious Studies Philosophy Studies in Human Society Political Science Political normativity The inefficacy problem. The political ab: This paper is a defence of the view that, contrary to a recent trend in the literature, there is a distinctively political kind of normativity. Four steps are taken to establish that conclusion. First, I introduce a constructivist methodology for practical philosophy, one that is focused on the problem-solving nature of normative concepts. Second, I propose to understand the political as constituted by political problems, that is, by problems that concern members of a collective as members of that collective. Third, I claim that there is a kind of collective obligations, which I call political collective obligations, that do not provide direct and clear action guidance to those subject to them, but that are rather best conceived of as thin obligations. Such thin obligations stemming from properly conceived political problems constitute a distinctive kind of normativity, the normativity of politics. Because political collective obligations typically lack action guidance, what they mandate is that each obliged agent contribute their share to what they normatively regard as the best collective solution to the political problem. The paper concludes with some considerations about the so-called inefficacy problem in light of the previously established conclusions. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy is a copyright of Springer, 2025. All Rights Reserved. item: Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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