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Politics, Innocence, and the Limits of Goodness

Author : Peter Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000706613
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Politics, Innocence, and the Limits of Goodness written by Peter Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Moral innocence is of enduring interest because it seems to embody our ideals in their purest form. The place of moral innocence in politics is the central theme of Peter Johnson’s subtle and original book. Are there moral dispositions which are not only incompatible with politics but actually endanger it? If it is sometimes necessary to act badly in order to achieve desirable objectives, what moral standpoints would exclude such a course at action? Peter Johnson demonstrates convincingly why philosophical accounts of morality, past and present, are unable to explain moral innocence: its full impact on politics can only be grasped by putting aside traditional theories. Literature provides the key to a deeper understanding of the relationship between politics and morality. Melville’s Billy Budd, Shakespeare’s Henry VI, and Graham Greene’s The Quiet American reveal moral innocence at work in political circumstances of great intensity. Through these and other literary figures, we see at last the specific character of moral innocence and why it is connected with political disaster. This closely reasoned yet deeply passionate book illuminates a problem of great contemporary interest and nowhere more so than in American public life. Original in theme and content, it confronts central issues of concern to the modern mind, not simply to academics, both teachers and taught, but to all those interested in how they might be governed.

Politics, Innocence and the Limits of Goodness

Author : Peter Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608203515
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Politics, Innocence and the Limits of Goodness written by Peter Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moral Wisdom and Good Lives

Author : John Kekes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721860
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Moral Wisdom and Good Lives written by John Kekes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this profound and yet accessible book, John Kekes discusses moral wisdom: a virtue essential to living a morally good and personally satisfying life. He advances a broad, nontechnical argument that considers the adversities inherent in the human condition and assists in the achievement of good lives. The possession of moral wisdom, Kekes asserts, is a matter of degree: more of it makes lives better, less makes them worse. Exactly what is moral wisdom, however, and how should it be sought? Ancient Greek and medieval Christian philosophers were centrally concerned with it. By contrast, modern Western sensibility doubts the existence of a moral order in reality; and because we doubt it, and have developed no alternatives, we have grown dubious about the traditional idea of wisdom. Kekes returns to the classical Greek sources of Western philosophy to argue for the contemporary significance of moral wisdom. He develops a proposal that is eudaimonistic—secular, anthropocentric, pluralistic, individualistic, and agonistic. He understands moral wisdom as focusing on the human effort to create many different forms of good lives. Although the approach is Aristotelian, the author concentrates on formulating and defending a contemporary moral ideal. The importance of this ideal, he shows, lies in increasing our ability to cope with life's adversities by improving our judgment. In chapters on moral imagination, self-knowledge, and moral depth, Kekes calls attention to aspects of our inner life that have been neglected because of our cultural inattention to moral wisdom. He discusses these inner processes through the tragedies of Sophocles, which can inspire us with their enduring moral significance and help us to understand the importance of moral wisdom to living a good life.

Literature and the Political Imagination

Author : Andrea T. Baumeister
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134794460
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Political Imagination written by Andrea T. Baumeister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought. A variety of approaches are adopted and the aim is to show some of the many and diverse ways in which literature may enrich political theorising, as well as considering some of the problems to which this may give rise. The theorists discussed include Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Martha Nussbaum. There are literary references from Greek tradegy, Jonathan Swift, Brian Moore, Elizabeth Bowen and contemporary feminist utopian fiction. All the contributors have a long-standing interest in the relations between literature and moral and political thought. They are concerned not to be restricted by conventional academic boundaries and are not united by any party-line or uniformity of intellectual commitments. This volume will be of great interest to all students engaged in the study of politics and literature.

Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology

Author : Elizabeth S. Dodd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317172930
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology written by Elizabeth S. Dodd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds innocence in every stage of existence. He finds it in the chaos at the origins of creation as well as in the blessed order of Eden. He finds it in the activities of grace and the hope of glory, but also in the trials of misery and even in the abyss of the Fall. Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne’s Poetic Theology traces innocence through Traherne’s works as it transgresses the boundaries of the estates of the soul. Using grammatical and literary categories it explores various aspects of his poetic theology of innocence, uncovering the boundless desire which is embodied in the yearning cry: ’Were all Men Wise and Innocent...’ Recovering and reinterpreting a key but increasingly neglected theme in Traherne’s poetic theology, this book addresses fundamental misconceptions of the meaning of innocence in his work. Through a contextual and theological approach, it indicates the unexplored richness, complexity and diversity of this theme in the history of literature and theology.

Ethics of an Artificial Person

Author : Elizabeth Hankins Wolgast
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721035
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Ethics of an Artificial Person written by Elizabeth Hankins Wolgast and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can freely cross disciplinary boundaries, as well as the line between theory and practice, and allow practices to cast their light back on the theory and show us its deficiencies. In short, this approach reorients some much-discussed issues of professional, business, and military ethics and reveals them as variations on one deeply rooted theme. The author does not treat current institutions as final and unalterable. If these arrangements frustrate moral evaluation, she finds that an argument for change. To make intelligent changes, however, we need a clear view of the reasoning that makes them seem natural and inevitable. That is what this book attempts to do. In the process, the author also reexamines the concept of "person." Not all cultures put so much stress on the idea as Western - and particularly American - cultures do. If we wish to keep this emphasis, then here is another argument for change

How Should We Live?

Author : John Kekes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022663907X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book How Should We Live? written by John Kekes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years philosophers have sought a single, overriding ideal that should guide everyone, always, everywhere, and after centuries of debate we’re no closer to an answer. In How Should We Live?, John Kekes offers a refreshing alternative, one in which we eschew absolute ideals and instead consider our lives as they really are, day by day, subject to countless vicissitudes and unforeseen obstacles. Kekes argues that ideal theories are abstractions from the realities of everyday life and its problems. The well-known arenas where absolute ideals conflict—dramatic moral controversies about complex problems involved in abortion, euthanasia, plea bargaining, privacy, and other hotly debated topics—should not be the primary concerns of moral thinking. Instead, he focuses on the simpler problems of ordinary lives in ordinary circumstances. In each chapter he presents the conflicts that a real person—a schoolteacher, lawyer, father, or nurse, for example—is likely to face. He then uses their situations to shed light on the mundane issues we all must deal with in everyday life, such as how we use our limited time, energy, or money; how we balance short- and long-term satisfactions; how we deal with conflicting loyalties; how we control our emotions; how we deal with people we dislike; and so on. Along the way he engages some of our most important theorists, including Donald Davidson, Thomas Nagel, Christine Korsgaard, Harry Frankfurt, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Bernard Williams, ultimately showing that no ideal—whether autonomy, love, duty, happiness, or truthfulness—trumps any other. No single ideal can always guide how we overcome the many different problems that stand in the way of living as we should. Rather than rejecting such ideals, How Should We Live? offers a way of balancing them by a practical and pluralistic approach—rather than a theory—that helps us cope with our problems and come closer to what our lives should be.

Ethics and Political Practice

Author : Noel Preston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134647956
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Political Practice written by Noel Preston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrutinizing the practice of legislators and politicians from an ethical perspective, this work looks closely at various methods to facilitate ethical conduct.

Identity, Narrative and Politics

Author : Maureen Whitebrook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136367330
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Identity, Narrative and Politics written by Maureen Whitebrook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity, Narrative and Politics argues that political theory has barely begun to develop a notion of narrative identity; instead the book explores the sophisticated ideas which emerge from novels as alternative expressions of political understanding. This title uses a broad international selection of Twentieth Century English language works, by writers such as Nadine Gordimer and Thomas Pynchon. The book considers each novel as a source of political ideas in terms of content, structure, form and technique. The book assumes no prior knowledge of the literature discussed, and will be fascinating reading for students of literature, politics and cultural studies.

Political Hypocrisy

Author : David Runciman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691180857
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Political Hypocrisy written by David Runciman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. Political Hypocrisy is a timely, and timeless, book on the problems of sincerity and truth in politics, and how we can deal with them without slipping into hypocrisy ourselves. Runciman draws on the work of some of the great truth-tellers in modern political thought--Hobbes, Mandeville, Jefferson, Bentham, Sidgwick, and Orwell--and applies his ideas to different kinds of hypocritical politicians from Oliver Cromwell to Hillary Clinton. He argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics--the most dangerous form of political hypocrisy is to claim to have a politics without hypocrisy. Featuring a new foreword that takes the story up to Donald Trump, this book examines why, instead of vainly searching for authentic politicians, we should try to distinguish between harmless and harmful hypocrisies and worry only about the most damaging varieties.

Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens

Author : Maureen Whitebrook
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847679843
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens written by Maureen Whitebrook and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Whitebrook argues that literature, through both its form and its content, can expose and criticize liberal theory and point beyond it to a new political theory. She describes how 'literary political criticism' might be done, and demonstrates such criticism in four essays that expose the connections between specific political and literary texts. Fiction, Whitebrook concludes, does a better job than liberal political theory of examining the relationship between the individual and the State.

Frames of Deceit

Author : Peter Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052143193X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Frames of Deceit written by Peter Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frames of Deceit is a philosophical investigation of the nature of trust in public and private life. It examines how trust originates, how it is challenged, and how it is recovered when moral and political imperfections collide. In politics, rulers may be called upon to act badly for the sake of a political good, and in private life intimate attachments are formed in which the costs of betrayal are high. This book asks how trust is tested by human goods, moral character, and power relations. It explores whether an individual's experience of betrayal differs totally from that of a community when it loses and then seeks to recover a vital public trust. Although this is a work of political philosophy it is distinctive in examining three literary texts--Sophocles' Philoctetes, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and Zola's Thérèse Raquin--in order to deepen our understanding of the place of trust in morality and politics.

Partly Cloudy

Author : David L. Perry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442262044
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Partly Cloudy written by David L. Perry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation explores a number of wrenching ethical issues and challenges faced by military and intelligence personnel. It provides a robust and practical approach to analyzing ethical issues in war and intelligence operations, and applies careful reasoning to issues of vital importance today, not only for soldiers, intelligence professionals, and policy makers, but also for the citizens they serve and protect. This new edition has been updated throughout and includes new contents, to deal with critical issues such as torturing detainees, using espionage to penetrate terrorist cells, mounting covert actions to undermine hostile regimes, practicing euthanasia on the battlefield as mercy-killing, or using targeted killings as a means to fight insurgencies. Partly Cloudy provides an excellent introduction to the field for students, instructors, and practitioners who are interested in the ethical challenges faced by public servants.

Kindness and the Good Society

Author : William S. Hamrick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791489140
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Kindness and the Good Society written by William S. Hamrick and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology presented by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology with interest from a fund raised from Professor Ballard's family, students, and friends Kindness and the Good Society utilizes phenomenology and a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional sources to provide the first comprehensive account of kindness in any genre of philosophy. Remarkably rich in descriptive detail and drawing upon a wide range of examples, including literary sources, current affairs, and traditional philosophical texts, Hamrick's book rescues kindness from the purposeful neglect of deontological and utilitarian ethical theories. Beginning with an account of the personal and social areas of ethical and moral comportment, Hamrick addresses what is not intuitively obvious about kindness and its opposite, details a critical kindness that avoids both naiveté as well as popular cynicism, and guides us toward a new notion of aesthetic humanism.

A Private Woman in Public Spaces

Author : Barbara A. Holmes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563383021
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A Private Woman in Public Spaces written by Barbara A. Holmes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive analysis of Barbara Jordan's written speeches. The speeches offer important insights into Jordan's moral theories and her model of a flourishing multi-ethnic society.

Justice and Violence

Author : Eric Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351154621
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Justice and Violence written by Eric Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2003. Justice and Violence brings together a fascinating and varied volume that focuses on the ethics of both political violence and pacifism. Incorporating historical, geopolitical and cultural case studies, it takes a unique look at comparative analyses of these two phenomena and contending world views. The volume is a 'must read' for political scientists, ethicists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and policy analysts. As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, the contradictory and conflicting forces of globalization and cultural fragmentation make it increasingly crucial to give serious consideration to the issues raised here.

Narratives of British Socialism

Author : S. Ingle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230287646
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of British Socialism written by S. Ingle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the study of narratives bring to our understanding of political ideas that other forms of analysis cannot? In Narratives of British Socialism , Stephen Ingle shows how imaginative literature can be used to give definition to political thought. The origins, development and eventual decline of British socialism are analyzed in the writings of Morris, Shaw, Wells, Huxley, Koestler, Orwell and others. Ingle concludes that narratives can give us an experiential understanding of political ideas.