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Download or read book Thick Moralities, Thin Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVGregg sketches a new moral framework for political theory and public policy./div
Author : Benjamin Gregg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330936
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Thick Moralities, Thin Politics written by Benjamin Gregg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVGregg sketches a new moral framework for political theory and public policy./div
Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026816164X
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Thick and Thin written by Michael Walzer and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, Michael Walzer revises and extends the arguments in his influential Spheres of Justice, framing his ideas about justice, social criticism, and national identity in light of the new political world that has arisen in the past three decades. Walzer focuses on two different but interrelated kinds of moral argument: maximalist and minimalist, thick and thin, local and universal. This new edition has a new preface and afterword, written by the author, describing how the reasoning of the book connects with arguments he made in Just and Unjust Wars about the morality of warfare. Walzer's highly literate and fascinating blend of philosophy and historical analysis will appeal not only to those interested in the polemics surrounding Spheres of Justice and Just and Unjust Wars but also to intelligent readers who are more concerned with getting the arguments right.
Author : Benjamin Gregg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791486597
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms written by Benjamin Gregg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are social equity, political fairness, and legal justice possible within a liberal political order, even if norms are indeterminate? The modern world is distinguished by both its complexity and the absence of a single theory, principle, or tradition with the authority to constrain us. Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms demonstrates that while moral validity is relative rather than absolute, and cultural meanings local rather than universal, social integration and democratic politics are still attainable goals. Benjamin Gregg fashions a theory that combines proceduralism with pragmatism—an "enlightened localism"—that adjudicates among competing normative commitments and interpretations using local criteria in the absence of universal standards. The theory is applied to three empirical domains: social criticism, public policy, and law and morality.
Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Thick and Thin written by Michael Walzer and published by . This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seth D. Kaplan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471218
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Human Rights in Thick and Thin Societies written by Seth D. Kaplan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the idea of a flexible approach to the human rights movement that returns to basics in an increasingly diverse and multipolar world.
Author : Avishai Margalit
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067497395X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book On Betrayal written by Avishai Margalit and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Seamlessly combines analytic rigor with personal memoir . . . its arguments are drawn from political history . . . Biblical commentary . . . novels and biographies.” (Amélie Rorty, Tufts University) Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we constantly see and hear stories of betrayal. Avishai Margalit argues that the tension between the ubiquity of betrayal and the loosening of its hold is a sign of the strain between ethics and morality, between thick and thin human relations. On Betrayal offers a philosophical account of thick human relations?relationships with friends, family, and core communities?through their pathology, betrayal. Judgments of betrayal often shift unreliably. A traitor to one side is a hero to the other. Yet the notion of what it means to betray is remarkably consistent across cultures and eras. Betrayal undermines thick trust, dissolving the glue that holds our most meaningful relationships together. On Betrayal is about ethics: what we owe to the people and groups that give us our sense of belonging. Drawing on literary, historical, and personal sources, Maraglit examines what our thick relationships are and should be and revives the long-discarded notion of fraternity. “Provocative and illuminating.” —Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study “Witty and wise, precise and profound, On Betrayal is an easy but deep read: it sees life as it really is with all its turmoil.” —The Christian Century “The range of Margalit’s examples is astonishing. . . . He is much more knowledgeable about and comfortable with communities (and in communities) than most philosophers are, and so he is very good at recognizing when they go wrong.” —New York Review of Books
Author : Brian Orend
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551114361
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Human Rights written by Brian Orend and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner: 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award What are human rights? What justifies us in believing we have them? What are rights-holders and duty-bearers? Who should bear the costs and responsibilities for making human rights real? Why have some criticized the human rights perspective? And how can those supportive of human rights best respond? These and other conceptual issues are discussed in full in the first part of this book. The second part offers a detailed account of how the human rights idea came to be such a powerful force in the contemporary world; it traces the evolution of human rights from their origins to their present position in our daily lives, in political struggles, and in both national and international law.
Author : Kristen Deede Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113946115X
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Theology, Political Theory, and Pluralism written by Kristen Deede Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we live together in the midst of our differences? This is one of the most pressing questions of our time. Tolerance has been the bedrock of political liberalism, while proponents of agonistic political thought and radical democracy have sought an answer that allows a deeper celebration of difference. Kristen Deede Johnson describes the move from tolerance to difference, and the accompanying move from epistemology to ontology, within political theory. Building on this 'ontological turn', in search of a theological answer to the question, she puts Augustine into conversation with recent political theorists and theologians. This theological option enables the Church to envision a way to engage with contemporary political society without losing its own embodied story and practices. It contributes to our broader political imagination by offering a picture of rich engagement between the many different particularities that constitute a pluralist society.
Author : Steven R. Ratner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198704046
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Thin Justice of International Law written by Steven R. Ratner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new interdisciplinary approach to global justice and integrating the insights of international relations and contemporary ethics, this book asks whether the core norms of international law are just by appraising them according to a standard of global justice grounded in the advancement of peace and protection of human rights.
Author : Simon Kirchin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191652504
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Thick Concepts written by Simon Kirchin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the difference between judging someone to be good and judging them to be kind? Both judgements are typically positive, but the latter seems to offer more description of the person: we get a more specific sense of what they are like. Very general evaluative concepts (such as good, bad, right and wrong) are referred to as thin concepts, whilst more specific ones (including brave, rude, gracious, wicked, sympathetic, and mean) are termed thick concepts. In this volume, an international team of experts addresses the questions that this distinction opens up. How do the descriptive and evaluative functions or elements of thick concepts combine with each other? Are these functions or elements separable in the first place? Is there a sharp division between thin and thick concepts? Can we mark interesting further distinctions between how thick ethical concepts work and how other thick concepts work, such as those found in aesthetics and epistemology? How, if at all, are thick concepts related to reasons and action? These questions, and others, touch on some of the deepest philosophical issues about the evaluative and normative. They force us to think hard about the place of the evaluative in a (seemingly) nonevaluative world, and raise fascinating issues about how language works.
Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674981693
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Ordinary Virtues written by Michael Ignatieff and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling.” —New Statesman What moral values do we hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are the things we value converging or diverging? These twin questions led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of an answer. What we share, he found, are what he calls “ordinary virtues”: tolerance, forgiveness, trust, and resilience. When conflicts break out, these virtues are easily exploited by the politics of fear and exclusion, reserved for one’s own group but denied to others. Yet these ordinary virtues are the key to healing and reconciliation on both a local and global scale. “Makes for illuminating reading.” —Simon Winchester, New York Review of Books “Engaging, articulate and richly descriptive... Ignatieff’s deft histories, vivid sketches and fascinating interviews are the soul of this important book.” —Times Literary Supplement “Deserves praise for wrestling with the devolution of our moral worlds over recent decades.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Author : Vera Vogelsang-Coombs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113749400X
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Political Ethics of Public Service written by Vera Vogelsang-Coombs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a defense of democratic politics in American public service and offers the political ethics of public service as a realistic and optimistic alternative to the cynical American view toward politics and public service. The author’s alternative helps career public servants regain public trust by exercising constitutionally centered moral and political leadership that balances the regime values of liberty and equality in governing American society while contributing to the ethical progress of the nation. She identifies three distinct leadership styles of political ethics, enabling career public servants to reconcile their personal loyalties, morality, and consciences with the public and private morality of American society and their constitutional obligations to secure the democratic freedoms of Americans. Recognizing career public servants’ moral and institutional struggles, the book proposes a rigorous leadership development program to acclimate individuals to workplace psychological, moral, and political challenges. The view offered here is that career public servants must be a part of, rather than isolated from, American politics to be effective on the job.
Author : Laura J. Shepherd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135264961
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Gender Matters in Global Politics written by Laura J. Shepherd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying feminism & international relations, gender and global politics and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of the most significant theories, methodologies, debates and issues. This textbook is written by an international line-up of established and emerging scholars from a range of theoretical perspectives, providing students with provocative and cutting-edge insights into the study and practices of (how) gender matters in global politics. Key features and benefits of the book: Introduces students to the wide variety of feminist and gender theory and explains the relevance to contemporary global politics. Explains the insights of feminist theory for a range of other disciplines including international relations, international political economy and security studies. Addresses a large number of key contemporary issues such as human rights, trafficking, rape as a tool of war, peacekeeping and state-building, terrorism and environmental politics. Features extensive pedagogy to facilitate learning – seminar exercises, text boxes, photographs, suggestions for further reading, web resources and a glossary of key terms. In this innovative and groundbreaking textbook gender is represented as a noun, a verb and a logic, allowing both students and lecturers to develop a sophisticated understanding of the crucial role that gender plays in the theories, policies and practices of global politics.
Author : Kody W. Cooper
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268103046
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law written by Kody W. Cooper and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody W. Cooper challenges this traditional interpretation of Hobbes in Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Hobbes affirms two essential theses of classical natural law theory: the capacity of practical reason to grasp intelligible goods or reasons for action and the legally binding character of the practical requirements essential to the pursuit of human flourishing. Hobbes’s novel contribution lies principally in his formulation of a thin theory of the good. This book seeks to prove that Hobbes has more in common with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of natural law philosophy than has been recognized. According to Cooper, Hobbes affirms a realistic philosophy as well as biblical revelation as the ground of his philosophical-theological anthropology and his moral and civil science. In addition, Cooper contends that Hobbes's thought, although transformative in important ways, also has important structural continuities with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of practical reason, theology, social ontology, and law. What emerges from this study is a nuanced assessment of Hobbes’s place in the natural law tradition as a formulator of natural law liberalism. This book will appeal to political theorists and philosophers and be of particular interest to Hobbes scholars and natural law theorists.
Author : Rémi Brague
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268105715
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Curing Mad Truths written by Rémi Brague and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation—including human beings—as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving. Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists.
Author : Adela Cortina Orts
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042913400
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Covenant and Contract written by Adela Cortina Orts and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern republicanism nevertheless turns liberal and opts for the contract between independent beings as fiat of the political world." "But the Contract is not self-sufficient, since anyone who looks back to their roots will come to the narration of reciprocal recognition. The Covenant falls similarly short, as those who forget the parable of independence may well have a disregard for justice." "In a dialogue with the most relevant philosophical currents of the age, the book proposes an articulation of politics, ethics and religion appropriate for our own time, starting from the contract between independent beings and from the reciprocal recognition of those who know themselves to be human."--Jacket.
