On Assessment in Teaching Political Philosophy

Desirability and Feasibility

Abstract

The article offers a tool that can be used for assessment of ideas in political philosophy with students in education processes. The proposed method of assessment is based on the criteria of desirability and feasibility. Employing this method can help the students focus more carefully and point their thinking to two important aspects of normative theories in political philosophy. The article provides an analysis of the two criteria and shows how desirability-feasibility assessment should proceed. By doing that, it proposes a system of combining desirability and feasibility in critical assessment of ideas in political philosophy.