Morality and Politics: Volume 21, Part 1

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Ellen Frankel Paul, Jeffrey Paul
Cambridge University Press, 09.02.2004 - 354 Seiten
Divisions abound about whether politics should be held to a higher moral standard or whether pragmatic considerations or realpolitik should prevail. The two poles are represented most conspicuously by Aristotle, for whom the proper aim of politics is moral virtue, and Machiavelli, whose prince in contrast exalted political pragmatism over morality. The fourteen contributors to this volume are predominantly arrayed on the Aristotelian end of the continuum, although several moral skeptics and pragmatists do enter the fray. These essays address perennial concerns in political and moral theory and underscore the rekindled yearning of many to hold the political realm to a higher standard despite the skepticism of dissenters who question the likelihood or even the desirability of success.

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Whats Morality Got to Do With It? Making the Right Distinctions
1
Unauthorized Humanitarian Intervention
14
The Problem of Deliberative Democracy
39
Representing Ignorance
76
Dual Citizenship and American Democracy Patriotism National Attachment and National Identity
100
An Exploration in Politics and Morality
121
Reflections on Espionage
141
Lying in Politics
167
An Object of Judgment
202
Against Civic Schooling
221
Political Morality as Convention
266
Autonomy and Empathy
293
Gods Image and Egalitarian Politics
310
Should Political Liberals Be Compassionate Conservatives? Philosophical Foundations of the FaithBased Initiative
322
Index
347
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