Realism and Political Normativity
Realism and Political Normativity
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现实主义与政治规范性
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2021
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通讯作者：
Matt Sleat
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作者：
Matt Sleat
对现实主义的普遍理解，主要是在其批评者中，将现实主义者视为那些寻求“独特的政治规范”的人，这被解释为非道德的意思。因此，道德家是那些拒绝这一点并相信政治规范仍然是道德的人。批评家们于是把大部分注意力集中在证明寻找一种非道德的政治规范注定要失败上，如果这是正确的，那么似乎会致命地破坏现实主义的努力。本文认为，用这些术语来区分现实主义和道德主义是一个错误，它忽视了现实主义作品的实质，而现实主义作品显然没有发展非道德政治规范的愿望。我们希望，在提请人们注意这一错误时，可以在这些无益的辩论中划出一条界线，我们可以在现实主义者和他们的批评者之间进行更富有成果的建设性和批判性的讨论。
A prevailing understanding of realism, chiefly among its critics, casts realists as those who seek a ‘distinctively political normativity’, where this is interpreted as meaning nonmoral in kind. Moralists, on this account, are those who reject this and believe that political normativity remains moral. Critics have then focused much of their attention on demonstrating that the search for a nonmoral political normativity is doomed to fail which, if right, would then seem to fatally undermine the realist endeavour. This paper makes the case that casting the difference between realism and moralism in these terms is a mistake, one which overlooks the substantial body of realist work which is clear that it has no such aspirations to develop a nonmoral political normativity. The hope is that in drawing attention to this mistake a line can be drawn under these unhelpful debates, and we can move on to more fruitful constructive and critical discussions between realists and their critics.