Politics and Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics and Morality write by Susan Mendus. This book was released on 2013-04-25. Politics and Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and distrust, and electoral turnout in many modern democracies continues to fall. But are we right to display such contempt towards our elected representatives? Can politicians be morally good or is politics destined to involve dirty hands or the loss of integrity, as many modern philosophers claim? In this book, Susan Mendus seeks to address these important questions to assess whether this apparent tension between morality and politics is real and, if so, why. Beginning with an account of integrity as involving a willingness to stand by ones most fundamental moral commitments, the author discusses three reasons for thinking that politics undermines integrity and is incompatible with morality. These are: the relationship between politics and utilitarian calculation; the possibility that the realm of politics is a separate realm of value; and the difficulty of reconciling the demands of different social roles. She concludes that, in the modern world, we all risk losing our integrity. To that extent, we are all politicians. Moreover, we have reason to be glad that politicians are not always morally good. Written with verve and clarity, this book provides students and general readers an accessible guide to the philosophical debates about the complex relationship between politics and morality in the contemporary world.
Morality and Politics: Volume 21, Part 1
Morality and Politics: Volume 21, Part 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morality and Politics: Volume 21, Part 1 write by Ellen Frankel Paul. This book was released on 2004-02-09. Morality and Politics: Volume 21, Part 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Divisions abound as to whether politics should be held responsible to a higher moral standard or whether pragmatic considerations, or realpolitik, should prevail. The two poles are represented most conspicuously by Aristotle (for whom the proper aim of politics is moral virtue) and Machiavelli (whose prince exalted political pragmatism over morality). The fourteen contributions to this volume address perennial concerns in political and moral theory. They underscore the rekindled yearning of many to hold the political realm to a higher standard despite the skepticism of dissenters who question the likelihood, or even the desirability, of success.
Morality Politics in Western Europe
Morality Politics in Western Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morality Politics in Western Europe write by Isabelle Engeli. This book was released on 2012-06-29. Morality Politics in Western Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do some countries have 'Culture Wars' over morality issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage while other countries hardly experience any conflict? This book argues that morality issues only generate major conflicts in political systems with a significant conflict between religious and secular parties.
The Moral Foundations of Politics
The Moral Foundations of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Foundations of Politics write by Ian Shapiro. This book was released on 2012-10-30. The Moral Foundations of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato’s time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy’s strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance.
Moral Politics
Moral Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moral Politics write by George Lakoff. This book was released on 1996. Moral Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lakoff takes a fresh look at how we think and talk about politics and shows that political and moral ideas develop in systematic ways from our models of ideal families. Arguing that conservatives have exploited the connection between morality, the famility and politics, while liberals have failed to recognize it, Lakoff expalins why the conservative moral position has not been effectively challenged.
