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Politics as a Moral Problem.

"The instincts of democratic citizens concerning political morality pull in opposite directions. On the one hand, we tend to think that the norms of political action are more lenient than those of private ethics. But we also believe that politicians are subject to more demanding expectations th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kis, János
Otros Autores: Miklósi, Zoltán
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction; 1.1 The problem at first sight; 1.2 A political debate; 1.3 A brief outline of the argument; 2. The circumstances of politics; 2.1 Two faces of politics; 2.2 Insufficient compliance; 2.3 Preliminary remarks on politics as a moral problem; 3. Realism: the unconstrained thesis; 3.1 Machiavelli's paradox; 3.2 Explaining the paradox; 3.3 From explanation towards solution; 3.4 Hobbes's treatment of the laws of nature; 3.5 Generalizing Machiavelli's conception; 3.6 The thesis of realism; 3.7 Transition to the thesis of indirect motivation.
  • 4. Indirect motivation: the narrow thesis4.1 Hume's knave; 4.2 Kant's "nation of devils"; 4.3 Virtue replaced by self-interest; 4.4 Difficulties with the classical theory; 5. Outlines of a neo-classical theory; 5.1 The thesis of realism constrained; 5.2 The thesis of indirect motivation extended; 5.3 " to publicly let his opinion known"; 5.4 Summary; 6. Realism: the constrained thesis; 6.1 The ethics of responsibility; 6.2 A principle of accountability; 6.3 The constraint: its content and scope; 6.4 Institutional rules; 6.5 Willy Brandt's resignation; 7. Indirect motivation: the wide thesis.
  • 7.1 Common deliberation and strategic interaction7.2 Deliberative democracy: internal limits; 7.3 Truth and democracy; 7.4 Deliberation in indirect motivation; 7.5 Populism; 7.6 The Spiegel affair; 8. Dirty hands in politics; 8.1 A quasi-Weberian argument; 8.2 The "Catholic" model; 8.3 A fresh start; 8.4 "Democratic dirty hands"; 8.5 The moral risks from disagreement; 8.6 Tony Blair's war; 9. Dirty hands and moral dilemmas; 9.1 Moral dilemmas: the tragic account; 9.2 The moral doubts account; 9.3 The tragic account revisited: moral residues; 9.4 Dirty hands.
  • 9.5 The dirty hands account of moral dilemmas9.6 Dirty hands in the absence of moral dilemmas; 10. Summary; Appendix-"Living in truth"; Index.