Philosophers typically present ideal and nonideal theories as distinct analytical frameworks. For example, Plato whom viewed the realm of becoming as “impenetrable and full of shadows,” presented his Republic as a top-down idealized view of…

The persuasiveness of Charles Mills’ paper Racial Liberalism (2007) arises from the fact that it plays off one’s pre-theoretic beliefs about the lacunae between the ideals of liberalism as a political philosophy and the practices…

If a “world republic” is desirable, how should proposals for it be defended? This paper draws on Pauline Kleingeld’s defense of Immanuel Kant’s program for perpetual peace to argue that social contractarian accounts of the…