Conceptualizing Politics

Further readings
Reading Rawls:
Freeman, Samuel (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Cambridge: Cambridge Uni-
versity Press.
Mandle, John and David A. Reidy, eds. (2014) A Companion to Rawls, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
Materials on solidarity:
Bayertz, Kurt, ed. (1999) Solidarity, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Boyd, Scott and Mary Ann Walter (2014) Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity: Solidarities 
and Social Function, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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In this conclusive chapter of Part IV, we want to explore questions and perspectives 
that have come up in previous chapters but have not yet been specifically addressed. 
First comes what, since the outset of modernity, has been the thorny relationship 
between morality and politics, along with the issue of political realism (§1). The 
question of the ethics that should guide politicians is next (§2). Only partially over-
lapping with this complex is the question now known as the relationship of ideal 
and non-ideal theory, which touches once again upon the status and definition of 
political philosophy (§3). The so-called Critical Theory presents an arrangement of 
philosophy, ethics and politics that is different in more than one respect from what 
we have seen thus far; this is why we are going to briefly deal with it in §4.