Sentence examples for ideal theory from inspiring English sources

Ideal theory thus idealizes away the possibility of law-breaking, either by individuals (crime) or societies (aggressive war).

Ideal theory makes two types of idealizing assumptions about its subject matter.

The unsatisfactory nature of this theory, sometimes called the "ideal" theory of art, becomes apparent as soon as we ask how we would identify the intuition with which any given work of art is supposedly identical.

Clearly then, the physical embodiment of the work in sounds, language, scores, or other inscriptions is more fundamentally a part of it (of its "essence") than the ideal theory represents it to be.

Rawls was a devotee of "ideal theory," but Sen, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and an ardent cosmopolitan, is more willing to consider conflicting value systems, arguing that a successful idea of justice must be pragmatic; for him, the transcendental theories of justice that Rawls adapted from Locke and Kant overlook the fact that individuals, and cultures, inevitably disagree.

Putnam argues that metaphysical realism faces insuperable problems in explaining how words and sentences can determinately refer or correspond to the world in the way apparently required if it is to be possible for even an ideal theory to be false.

This is because the authors of these theories self-consciously advance them as "ideal theories"—i.e., as theories of what a perfectly just society would look like.

Rather than developing all-encompassing ideal theories of global justice, however, feminist philosophers tend to adopt the non-ideal theoretical perspectives, which focus on specific, concrete issues.

At the level of ideal theories of justice, some have argued that each and every capability is relevant and should count in our moral calculus (Vallentyne 2005).

Although this sounds perfectly unremarkable on first hearing what else should we expect a theory of justice to do?—attempting to glean practical advice from ideal theories proves to be an extremely problematic endeavor.

For instance, Iris Marion Young argues the traditional ideal theories of justice are unable to account for the unjust background conditions that contribute to the development of sweatshops in the global South.