Political philosophy

Living Together

Schmidtz disputes the idea that reflection on how to live needs to begin with timeless axioms. Rather, theorizing about how to live together should take its cue from contemporary moral philosophy's attempts to go beyond formal theory, and ask which principles have a history of demonstrably being organizing principles of actual thriving communities at their best. Ideals emerging from such research should be a distillation of social scientific insight from observable histories of successful community building. What emerges from ongoing testing in the crucible of life experience will be path-dependent in detail even if not in general outline, partly because any way of life is a response to challenges that are themselves contingent, path dependent, and in flux.

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Justin Bruner

Affiliated Faculty

Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy & Moral Science

Political philosophy
Social epistemology
Philosophy of biology

justinpbruner@arizona.edu

Social Sciences 219

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Journal: Politics, Philosophy & Economics

Politics, Philosophy & Economics aims to bring moral, economic and political theory to bear on the analysis, justification and criticism of political and economic institutions and public policies. The Editors are committed to publishing peer-reviewed papers of high quality using various methodologies from a wide variety of normative perspectives. The PPE journal is published quarterly by Sage Journals.