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Ideal and Nonideal Reasoning in Educational Theory
Author(s) -
Jaggar Alison M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
educational theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1741-5446
pISSN - 0013-2004
DOI - 10.1111/edth.12102
Subject(s) - ideal (ethics) , normative , ideal theory , epistemology , philosophy of education , economic justice , sociology , political philosophy , education theory , politics , mathematics , higher education , philosophy , political science , law , commutative ring , commutative property , pure mathematics
The terms “ideal theory” and “nonideal theory” are used in contemporary Anglophone political philosophy to identify alternative methodological approaches for justifying normative claims. Each term is used in multiple ways. In this article Alison M. Jaggar disentangles several versions of ideal and nonideal theory with a view to determining which elements may be helpful in designing models of real‐world justice that are contextually relevant, morally plausible, and practically feasible.