Justice in a Non-Ideal World: Bridging the Gap Between Political Theory and Real-World Politics

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The realisation of justice in the real world requires moral principles and political action. This book offers a roadmap for these two notions to connect. It explains how action-guiding principles are formulated by seeking cross-disciplinary input. Also, it casts light on the concepts that occupy the space between political morality and real-world politics, which are often used as reasons to obstruct the progression of social justice, e.g. feasibility, fact-sensitivity, compliance and path-dependence. This book argues for a re-appropriation of these concepts in the name of justice. Many examples will be provided, but the book focuses especially on the case of climate change. It will offer a detailed case study on the realisation of climate justice.

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What is our ideal of justice What can we do to make the world a better place here and now Bridging these questions, this insightful study presents a conceptual framework for formulating action-guiding principles. Case studies from climate change and international taxation provide refreshing illustrations of how to use abstract values as inspiration while showing sensitivity to empirical facts. -- Peter Dietsch, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Montreal
Can political philosophy enable progress on urgent global issues such as climate change In this book, Sayegh both argues that it can and shows us how to do it by articulating a vision of political philosophy as `action guiding. Deploying this philosophical method in analysis of tax competition, climate justice and carbon pricing, Sayegh brings fresh and significant insights. This book shows the power of philosophy when it is correctly married to empirical knowledge. -- Catriona McKinnon, Centre for Climate and Justice, University of Reading

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Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh is Postdoctoral Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and a Lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences at Yale University.