Popes vs Philosophers: Whose Ethics of Immigration? — Crooked Timber

Popes vs Philosophers: Whose Ethics of Immigration? — Crooked Timber

Political philosophers are criticised for their idealism, but when it comes to immigration they try to be ‘realistic’. Their aspiration to ‘realism’ often leads to nationalism (which I have analysed elsewhere as an implicit but heavy bias), but I still don’t understand why they aspire to realism on this issue. Philosophers have neither voters to attract, like the politicians, nor believers to bring to church, like the Popes. Why are Popes far mo…