Abstract
Abstract This chapter draws together the author’s methodological writings to develop a model of theorizing that sees political philosophy as a normative enterprise that provides its audience with reasons for actions. Such reasons must make sense to their audience. They are subject to a feasibility constraint. Finally, there is no reason to believe they are timeless. This approach takes the political beliefs of lay people seriously, but is still open to radical proposals, grounded in the best reading of real people’s values and principles. This can be defended on epistemic grounds, if one is sceptical that political philosophers have some special insight such that they can set aside popular beliefs as mere opinion. It can also be defended in terms of the legitimacy of coercive social institutions, so that those subject to the coercive power of state institutions are given reasons to accept this coercion that make sense to them.
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