"Political Philosophy is Not Applied Ethics" Kirun Sankaran So-called "political realists" adopt the slogan "political philosophy is not applied ethics," but it's not always clear why political philosophy is not applied ethics. I propose a novel way of understanding this distinction between political philosophy and applied ethics. I argue that applied ethics embraces a distinctive methodology with a distinct model of the relationship between agents, situations, and interesting normative features. To show this, I argue that a conception of power, exemplified by…