Charles Mills on Rawlsian “Ideal Theory” and Race

As he suggests in the quoted passage, the issue is not so much that Rawls himself ignored race as it is the ways in which Rawlsian “ideal theory ...

Mills, The racial contract and ideal theory - Taylor & Francis Online

Charles Mills is probably best known, not as the author of The Racial Contract, but for his long-running critique of ideal theory and Rawls for his association ...

Racial Realities and Corrective Justice: A Reply to Charles Mills - jstor

when it comes to correcting racial injustices, while I believe ideal theory, ... At other times, by “ideal theory” Mills seems to have in mind Rawls's.

Rawls and racial justice - PhilArchive

argument that justice as fairness suffices to prevent racial injustice. The second section discusses Mills' critique of Rawlsian ideal theory. I defend ...

On the Debate Between Rawls and Mills | Philosophia

Mills's main dissatisfaction with Rawls's view would be that there is no room for corrective or rectificatory justice in Rawls's ideal theory.

'The Racial Contract': Interview with Philosopher Charles W. Mills

... racial justice. HPR: Rawls appears to differentiate “ideal theory” (principles of justice for a perfectly just society) from “non-ideal theory.

Charles Mills' "Black Rights, White Wrongs" - Slow Boring

In “Ideal Theory as Ideology,” Mills argues that these errors and omissions all stem from Rawls' weird methodological choice to focus on what he ...

Why Rawls's Ideal Theory Leaves the Well-Ordered Society ...

Charles W. Mills's persistent criticisms of Rawls's ideal theory aptly motivated a turn to non-ideal theory, but also have deep, unexplored implications for ...

Mills, The racial contract and ideal theory. - PhilPapers

Keywords. Rawls ideal theory racial justice the racial contract Charles Mills. Reprint years. DOI. 10.1080/13698230.2024.2305013. Other Versions.

Further Topics on the Original Position

Even if they reject ideal theory, Mills, Sen and other critics, must rely upon universal principles of justice to fully ascertain the nature and degree of ...

"Ideal Theory" as Ideology - Charles Mills

Ideal theory, I would con- tend, is really an ideology, a distortional ... that not even the mental effort of doing a Rawlsian race-behind-the-veil job is.

Charles W. Mills on Rejecting Rawls and Decolonizing Western ...

Mills' The Racial Contract to one of my office mates, leading me to ... Mills' “Ideal Theory as Ideology”. This has resulted in a long ...

Charles W. Mills: On Rawls & Mainstream American Political Theory

Philosophy15 Episode 24: Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory #1. Philosophy15 ... Provost Lecture: Charles Mills - Liberalism and Racial Justice.

8 Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls - Oxford Academic

Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997). 7. Charles W. Mills, “'Ideal Theory' as Ideology,” Hypatia: A Journal of ...

Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls - Wiley Online Library

Race: The Focus on Ideal Theory. So one cannot appeal unproblematically to ... Mills, Charles W. 1997. The racial contract. Ithaca, NY Cornell.

Ideal Theory as Ideology: Charles W. Mills' Critique of Mainstream ...

In Ideal Theory as Ideology, Charles W. Mills offers a powerful ... Mills then includes some examples about how Rawls and Nozick systematically ...

Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls - ResearchGate

Second, ideal theory is needed to judge the urgency of various injustices; we can determine that one injustice is greater than another injustice by reference to ...

White time: The chronic injustice of ideal theory

... Rawls' ([1971] 1999c) ideal theory. The relevance to the postracial ... Mills, Charles W. / White time : The chronic injustice of ideal ...

Rawls and racial justice - DC Matthew, 2017 - Sage Journals

The uses of Rawlsian ideal theory. As I have indicated, Rawls' most persistent critic on issues of race has been Mills. For him, it is very ...

Charles Mills on Deracializing Liberalism

Key words: Charles Mills; Immanuel Kant; John Rawls; ideal theory; racism; moral principles. Charles Mills has long been a pioneer in the philosophy of race ...