Format:
Online-Ressource (311 p)
ISBN:
1283248115
,
9781283248112
Uniform Title:
Politika mint erkölcsi probléma. 〈engl.〉
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- 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 thesis -- 4.1 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 interaction -- 7.2 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283250233
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789639776227
Additional Edition:
Print version Politics as a Moral Problem
Language:
English
