Williams for and Against. Politics as a Constitutively Normative Practice Bermejo Luque, Lilian Bernard Williams Political normativity Political realism The main goal of this paper is to show that politics constitutes a normative domain of its own. To this, a concept of political value that explains why the politically good provides reasons for actions is indispensable. I shape this concept by adopting the framework of political minimalism and developing one of its central tenets, namely, that politics, as a constitutively normative practice, specifies objective standards for evaluating political phenomena. I characterize the notion of political value in these terms to offer a non-moralist foundation for political normativity. In this endeavor, the work of Bernard Williams plays two opposing roles: while his metapolitical ideas exemplify the shortcomings of substantialist accounts of political normativity, his criticism of the morality system and his conception of practical rationality as all-things-considered practical deliberation are fundamental, to the point that the conception of political normativity endorsed here can be seen as an extension of Williams’ ideas on normativity in general. Finally, I draw some consequences from this account of political minimalism to show that this conception of political normativity can hardly be considered a variety of political realism. 2024-10-07T11:53:06Z 2024-10-07T11:53:06Z 2024-09-26 journal article Bermejo Luque, L. Topoi (2024). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-024-10073-4] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/95649 10.1007/s11245-024-10073-4 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Springer