Essays On Political Morality

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674744020
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Philosophy written by Michael J. Sandel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.

Author : Richard Mervyn Hare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198249948
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Political Morality written by Richard Mervyn Hare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays represent Hare's thinking on a range of contemporary issues in political morality, including political obligation, terrorism, morality and war, rights, quality, and the environment. Three of the essays are previously unpublished.

Author : I. Carter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333992717
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom, Power and Political Morality written by I. Carter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts and their implications for the scope of morality in politics and international relations. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between empirical and normative definitions of 'freedom', 'power' and 'interests', whether governments are free to act against the national interest, and whether they can ever be morally obliged to do so.

Author : Joseph Raz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191018759
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in the Public Domain written by Joseph Raz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays opens with a pivotal essay, not previously published, on the implications of the moral duties which arise out of concern for the well-being of others. The first part of the book concentrates on the consequences of two central aspects of well-being: the importance of membership in groups - the role of belonging - and the active character of well-being - that it largely consists in successful activities. Both aspects have far-reaching political implications, explored in essays on free expression, national self-determination, and multiculturalism, among others. Against the background of the moral and political views developed in the first part, the second part of the book explores various aspects of the dynamic inter-relations between law and morality, offering some building blocks towards a theory of law.

Author : John David Garcia
Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780972178648
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethical State - An Essay On Political Ethics written by John David Garcia and published by Watchmaker Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barrington Moore
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726420
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays written by Barrington Moore and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth-century Soviet socialism. The social sources of antisocial behavior; principles of social inequality; and the origins, enemies, and possibilities of rational discussion in public affairs—these are among the topics Moore considers as he seeks to uncover the historical causes of some accepted forms of morality and to assess their social consequences. The keynote essay examines how moral codes grew out of commercial practices in England from medieval times through the industrial revolution. Moore pays special attention to conceptions of honesty and the temptation to evade that inform the volume as a whole. In the other essays, he considers particular political issues, viewing "political" in its broadest sense as an unequal distribution of power and authority that carries a strong moral charge. Free of preaching and advocacy, his work offers a rare reasonable assessment of the morality of major social institutions over time.

Author : Stephen Darwall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199662584
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morality, Authority, and Law written by Stephen Darwall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore the view that morality is second-personal, entailing mutual accountability and the authority to address demands. He illustrates the power of the second-personal framework to illuminate a wide variety of issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy.

Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Publisher : Selected Writings of Lord Acto
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings of Lord Acton written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and published by Selected Writings of Lord Acto. This book was released on 1985 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History compels us to fasten on abiding issues and rescues us from the temporary and transient. Volume II brings together Acton's distinguished writings on history. Included is his famous Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge, "The Study of History." Writing on many diverse topics, Acton argues that history demonstrates progress and unity through the story of liberty and that the study of history should be impartial, based on archival research, and founded in moral judgment.

Author : Lord Henry Home Kames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion written by Lord Henry Home Kames and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: