Where Should We Expect Social Change in Non-Ideal Theory?

Hendrix, Burke A.

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“…Steep transition costs hardly guarantee utopia, especially given the complexity of the social world and the impossibility of predicting the full repercussions of political action. Efforts to bring the ideal into existence by brute force can unleash a host of ills without bringing utopia any closer-a danger that looms over apocalyptic thought (Flannery, 2016) and ideal theory more broadly (Hendrix, 2013).…”

Section: The Political Appeal (And Risks) Of Apocalyptic Thoughtmentioning

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The challenges of ideal theory and appeal of secular apocalyptic thought

Jones

2017

European Journal of Political Theory

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Why do thinkers hostile or agnostic toward Christianity find in its apocalyptic doctrines—often seen as bizarre—appealing tools for interpreting politics? This article tackles that puzzle. First, it clarifies the concept of secular apocalyptic thought and its relation to Christianity. I propose that, to avoid imprecision, the study of secular apocalyptic thought should focus on cases where religious apocalyptic thought's influence on secular thinkers is clear because they explicitly reference such thought and its appeal (e.g. Engels's fascination with Christian apocalyptic thought). Second, it argues that the political appeal of apocalyptic thought—and, specifically, what I term cataclysmic apocalyptic thought (CAT)—partly lies in offering resources to navigate persistent challenges in ideal theory. The ideal theorist faces competing goals: formulating an ideal that is utopian and feasible. One potential approach to this challenge is CAT, which embraces a utopian ideal and declares it feasible through identifying crisis as the vehicle to realize it.

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Section: The Political Appeal (And Risks) Of Apocalyptic Thoughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

The challenges of ideal theory and appeal of secular apocalyptic thought

Jones

2017

European Journal of Political Theory

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“…According to Hendrix (2013), the process of non-ideal theorizing requires a deeper understanding of the concept of power, which is central to the transitional nature of the Rawlsian theory of justice. Power is something that is exercised among political institutions.…”

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The Ethics of Bilateral Labor Agreements for Nurses : Perspectives from the Philippines

Fernandez

2020

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The Faculty of Arts & Sciences provides education and research in humanities, socialand behavioural science, law, art disciplines and thematic science. The Faculty conducts research and offers postgraduate and doctoral programs both in individual disciplines and in interdisciplinary themes. This thesis comes from the Centre for Applied Ethics of the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS). Jointly, they publish the series Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences. The PHOENIX Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Program (PHOENIX EMJDP) Dynamics of Health and Welfare is managed by a consortium of universities composed of Universidade de Evora (UE), L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Linköpings universitet (LiU), and the

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“…15 Without such knowledge, proposals to advance justice can backfire and exacerbate the very oppression they seek to end. 16 Given that risk, academics committed to advancing justice also should value seeking the truth.…”

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Political Activism and Research Ethics

Jones

2019

J Applied Philosophy

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Those who care about and engage in politics frequently fall victim to cognitive bias. Concerns that such bias impacts scholarship recently have prompted debatesnotably, in philosophy and psychologyon the proper relationship between research and politics. One proposal emerging from these debates is that researchers studying politics have a professional duty to avoid political activism because it risks biasing their work. While sympathetic to the motivations behind this proposal, I suggest several reasons to reject a blanket duty to avoid activism: (1) even if it reduced bias, this duty would make unreasonable demands on researchers;(2) this duty could hinder research by limiting viewpoint diversity; (3) this duty wrongly implies that academia offers a relative haven from bias compared to politics; and (4) not all forms of political activism pose an equal risk of bias. None of these points suggest that researchers should ignore the risk of bias. Rather, researchers should focus on stronger evidence-based strategies for reducing bias than a blanket recommendation to avoid politics.

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Where Should We Expect Social Change in Non-Ideal Theory?

Cited by 19 publications

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The challenges of ideal theory and appeal of secular apocalyptic thought

The challenges of ideal theory and appeal of secular apocalyptic thought

The Ethics of Bilateral Labor Agreements for Nurses : Perspectives from the Philippines

Political Activism and Research Ethics

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