{"id":965,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/discuss-the-significance-of-a-normative-approach-to-political-upsc-psir-2020-0108\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:12","slug":"discuss-the-significance-of-a-normative-approach-to-political-upsc-psir-2020-0108","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-significance-of-a-normative-approach-to-political-upsc-psir-2020-0108\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss the significance of a normative approach to political theory."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Ri: asks \u201cwhat ought to be\u201d not \u201cwhat is\u201d \u2014 Plato\/Aristotle as founders. R2 facts alone cannot give politics its point \u2014 values do.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Links politics with ethics (Cohen) \u2014 standards of justice, liberty, equality \u2014 checks mere technique \u2192 actual vs ideal keeps reform alive \u2014 revival: Rawls \u2014 Macpherson, Dworkin, Sen.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Subjectivity, abstractness, utopianism; Berlin&#039;s value pluralism doubts one final moral order.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 empirical explains what is; normative says what is worth pursuing. R2 the revival after Rawls proves it<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[41],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[32],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-965","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-41","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-political-theory","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/965\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}