Abstract

My paper will be an inquiry on the meaning and the role of political philosophy. Political philosophy has a different ambition than other fields of academic philosophical doctrines: it should create ideas and theories that go twofold ways; they have to be consistent enough to be considered as a sufficient moral theory of good society, but they also had to be in some ways politically relevant for actual societies. In my paper I claim that if one of these aspects is overemphasized then political philosophy will lose it credibility, either on political feasibility or as a philosophical academic doctrine. Therefore it seems that political philosophy is in the middle of Rawlsian conceptions of ideal and non-ideal theory. I claim that political philosophy should consist on at least these three elements; regulativity, reforming and reflectivity. These elements give political philosophy it contents as a eutopia model, in other words, model for a realistic good society.