SP406: Has political theory identified the general rule for the resolution of moral conflicts: Principles of Political Theory Essay, NUI, Ireland

‘Has political theory identified the general rule for the resolution of moral conflicts? If your conclusion is that it has (or has not) done so, you must explain why this is the case.’

• Please address this question through a critical analysis of the arguments of at least one of the thinkers we have engaged with in the first six weeks of the module (i.e. Berlin, Rawls, Raz, Nozick, Goodin, Hare, Hart, MacIntyre, Gutmann, Pettit, Shklar).
• Please also consider in what ways these arguments are representative of the analytical tradition in political theory and also what they tell us about the success or otherwise of the analytical approach to critical thinking.
• You also have a choice: you can EITHER employ the structure and style of a conventional essay OR write a dialogue between two (or more) people with opposing views on this topic.