Theresa Scavenius, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Planning, University of Aalborg, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, PhD, Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Introduction

Theresa Scavenius and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

1. Fact-sensitive political theory

Theresa Scavenius

2. Towards a democracy-centred ethics

Annabelle Lever

3. Facts, norms, and dignity

Pablo Gilabert

4. Kant and the critique of the ethics-first approach to politics

Christian F. Rostbøll

5. What Mr. Spock told the earthlings: the aims of political philosophy, action-guidingness and fact-dependency

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

6. The role of interpretation of existing practice in normative political argument

Sune Lægaard

7. How practices do not matter

Eva Erman and Niklas Möller

What role should (non-normative) facts such as people's confined generosity and scarcity of resources play in the normative theorising of political philosophers? The chapters in this book investigate different aspects of this broad question.