Utopophobia

Utopophobia
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : 9780691147161
ISBN-13 : 0691147167
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Book Synopsis Utopophobia by : David Estlund

Download or read book Utopophobia written by David Estlund and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But what if, the ideal theorist asks, justice is a standard that no society is likely ever to satisfy? Could we somehow even know this is the case before seriously considering what justice requires? And, if social justice were unrealistic, would that mean that understanding justice is without value or importance, and merely idle utopianism? In Utopophobia, David Estlund argues that the best reasons for thinking either that justice must be realistic, or for thinking that there is no point in understanding justice unless it could be realized, are not convincing. No particular theory of justice is offered or presupposed by Estlund in this book, nor is it argued that justice is indeed unrealizable-only that it could be, and that this possibility upsets common ways of proceeding in political thought. .

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