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Politics as a Moral Problem

, by Kis, Janos

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ISBN: 9789639776227 | 963977622X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/30/2008

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Introduction	p. 1
The problem at first sight	p. 1
A political debate	p. 6
A brief outline of the argument	p. 12
The circumstances of politics	p. 21
Two faces of politics	p. 21
Insufficient compliance	p. 29
Preliminary remarks on politics as a moral problem	p. 34
Realism: the unconstrained thesis	p. 41
Machiavelli's paradox	p. 41
Explaining the paradox	p. 43
From explanation towards solution	p. 47
Hobbes's treatment of the laws of nature	p. 52
Generalizing Machiavelli's conception	p. 57
The thesis of realism	p. 60
Transition to the thesis of indirect motivation	p. 65
Indirect motivation: the narrow thesis	p. 69
Hume's knave	p. 69
Kant's "nation of devils"	p. 73
Virtue replaced by self-interest	p. 80
Difficulties with the classical theory	p. 83
Outlines of a neo-classical theory	p. 89
The thesis of realism constrained	p. 89
The thesis of indirect motivation extended	p. 95
"...to publicly let his opinion known"	p. 103
Summary	p. 108
Realism: the constrained thesis	p. 115
The ethics of responsibility	p. 115
A principle of accountability	p. 121
The constraint: its content and scope	p. 128
Institutional rules	p. 133
Willy Brandt's resignation	p. 140
Indirect motivation: the wide thesis	p. 147
Common deliberation and strategic interaction	p. 147
Deliberative democracy: internal limits	p. 154
Truth and democracy	p. 158
Deliberation in indirect motivation	p. 167
Populism	p. 175
The Spiegel affair	p. 182
Dirty hands in politics	p. 189
A quasi-Weberian argument	p. 189
The "Catholic" model	p. 193
A fresh start	p. 200
"Democratic dirty hands"	p. 208
The moral risks from disagreement	p. 213
Tony Blair's war	p. 220
Dirty hands and moral dilemmas	p. 235
Moral dilemmas: the tragic account	p. 235
The moral doubts account	p. 245
The tragic account revisited: moral residues	p. 250
Dirty hands	p. 259
The dirty hands account of moral dilemmas	p. 267
Dirty hands in the absence of moral dilemmas	p. 270
Summary	p. 283
Appendix-"Living in truth"	p. 293
Index	p. 309
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