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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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1. Introduction; 1.1 The problem at first sight; 1.2 A political debate; 1.3 A brief outline of the argument; 2. The circumstances of politics; 2.1 Two faces of politics; 2.2 Insufficient compliance; 2.3 Preliminary remarks on politics as a moral problem; 3. Realism: the unconstrained thesis; 3.1 Machiavelli's paradox; 3.2 Explaining the paradox; 3.3 From explanation towards solution; 3.4 Hobbes's treatment of the laws of nature; 3.5 Generalizing Machiavelli's conception; 3.6 The thesis of realism; 3.7 Transition to the thesis of indirect motivation |
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4. Indirect motivation: the narrow thesis4.1 Hume's knave; 4.2 Kant's "nation of devils"; 4.3 Virtue replaced by self-interest; 4.4 Difficulties with the classical theory; 5. Outlines of a neo-classical theory; 5.1 The thesis of realism constrained; 5.2 The thesis of indirect motivation extended; 5.3 " to publicly let his opinion known"; 5.4 Summary; 6. Realism: the constrained thesis; 6.1 The ethics of responsibility; 6.2 A principle of accountability; 6.3 The constraint: its content and scope; 6.4 Institutional rules; 6.5 Willy Brandt's resignation; 7. Indirect motivation: the wide thesis |
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7.1 Common deliberation and strategic interaction7.2 Deliberative democracy: internal limits; 7.3 Truth and democracy; 7.4 Deliberation in indirect motivation; 7.5 Populism; 7.6 The Spiegel affair; 8. Dirty hands in politics; 8.1 A quasi-Weberian argument; 8.2 The "Catholic" model; 8.3 A fresh start; 8.4 "Democratic dirty hands"; 8.5 The moral risks from disagreement; 8.6 Tony Blair's war; 9. Dirty hands and moral dilemmas; 9.1 Moral dilemmas: the tragic account; 9.2 The moral doubts account; 9.3 The tragic account revisited: moral residues; 9.4 Dirty hands |
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9.5 The dirty hands account of moral dilemmas9.6 Dirty hands in the absence of moral dilemmas; 10. Summary; Appendix-"Living in truth"; Index |
| Summary |
"The instincts of democratic citizens concerning political morality pull in opposite directions. On the one hand, we tend to think that the norms of political action are more lenient than those of private ethics. But we also believe that politicians are subject to more demanding expectations than ordinary people. Political theory must provide a coherent account of these apparently conflicting beliefs." "According to Janos Kis, the classical doctrine is capable of accounting for the first one, but at the cost of sacrificing the second. The main aim of the book is to show how the two intuitions can be integrated in a unified theory, and what such a theory tells us about the role of moral accountability in democratic politics."--Jacket |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Ethik
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Politik
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miklósi, Zoltán
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| ISBN |
9789639776227 |
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963977622X |
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