Political Philosophy and Climate Change
UCL Uncovering Politics
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The Problem With Non Ideal Principles in Climate Change
Climate change theory is often based on ideal theories, which are designed to establish a set of principles that everyone would agree with. But in the real world it's much more complicated and so we need to look at how these principles can be applied by different types of philosophers or political theorists. We argue for using "engaged methods" where philosophy works through interaction between theorist and potential agent of change.
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