ABSTRACT

Zooming In Zooming Out offers researchers an individual measure of discharging the collective social, political, and moral responsibilities. This is especially true regarding the second part of the strategy: Zooming Out. Zooming Out is the epistemological and methodological move which ensures that theoreticians will stand up to their responsibilities as individuals, affirm their own normative commitments, and convey their commitments to other members of their scholarly community and other citizens of their polity. Zooming In calls for people to concentrate on the theoretical rigor on defining the concepts that they use better. Zooming Out affirms the inadequacy of exhaustiveness, exclusiveness, and operationalization as the sole criteria for defining. Zooming Out burdens theoreticians with the obligation of defining morally the concepts they employ. One obvious outcome of the Zooming In Zooming Out strategy would be to better to relate social and political sciences and moral and political philosophy.