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In the Beginning Was the Deed : Realism and Moralism in Political Argument /

Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contrib...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003
Other Authors: Hawthorn, Geoffrey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction; ONE: Realism and Moralism in Political Theory; TWO: In the Beginning Was the Deed; THREE: Pluralism, Community and Left Wittgensteinianism; FOUR: Modernity and the Substance of Ethical Life; FIVE: The Liberalism of Fear; SIX: Human Rights and Relativism; SEVEN: From Freedom to Liberty: The Construction of a Political Value; EIGHT: The Idea of Equality; NINE: Conflicts of Liberty and Equality; TEN: Toleration, a Political or Moral Question?; ELEVEN: Censorship; TWELVE: Humanitarianism and the Right to Intervene; THIRTEEN: Truth, Politics, and Self-Deception.