Political Theory

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  • Laura Valentini
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Political theory, sometimes also called “normative political theory”, is a subfield of the disciplines of philosophy and political science that addresses conceptual, normative, and evaluative questions concerning politics and society, broadly construed. Examples are: When is a society just? What does it mean for its members to be free? When is one distribution of goods socially preferable to another? What makes a political authority legitimate? How should we make collective decisions? What goals should our policies promote? How should we trade off different values, such as liberty, prosperity, and security, against one another? What do we owe, not just to our fellow citizens, but to people in the world at large? Is it permissible to buy natural resources from authoritarian governments? Can war ever be just?

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تاریخ انتشار 2014