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Paradoxes of political ethics : from dirty hands to the invisible hand

John M. Parrish author. 2007

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Paradoxes of political ethics : from dirty hands to the invisible hand
著者: John M. Parrish author.
主題: Political ethics
描述: For the sake of the city -- Two cities and two loves -- Renaissance dilemmas -- Hobbes's choice -- Dirty hands commercialized -- How dirty hands become invisible: Adam Smith's solution.
How do the hard facts of political responsibility shape and constrain the demands of ethical life? That question lies at the heart of the problem of 'dirty hands' in public life. Those who exercise political power often feel they must act in ways that would otherwise be considered immoral: indeed, paradoxically, they sometimes feel that it would be immoral of them not to perform or condone such acts as killing or lying. John Parrish offers a wide-ranging account of how this important philosophical problem emerged and developed, tracing it - and its proposed solutions - from ancient Greece through the Enlightenment. His central argument is that many of our most familiar concepts and institutions - from Augustine's interiorised ethics, to Hobbes's sovereign state, to Adam Smith's 'invisible hand', understanding of the modern commercial economy - were designed partly as responses to the ethical problem of dirty hands in public life.
出版者: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
建立日期: 2007
格式: 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)..
語言: 英文
識別號: ISBN9780511487439 (ebook)
資源來源: NUTN ALEPH

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