Realm Of Lesser Evil

Author : Jean-Claude Michea
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745646204
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realm of Lesser Evil written by Jean-Claude Michea and published by Polity. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was ‘the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.’ The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to the capacity of human beings to make themselves ‘masters and possessors of nature’, it displays a profound pessimism when it comes to appreciating their moral capacity to build a decent world for themselves. As Michea shows, the roots of this pessimism lie in the idea – an eminently modern one – that the desire to establish the reign of the Good lies at the origin of all the ills besetting the human race. Liberalism’s critique of the ‘tyranny of the Good’ naturally had its costs. It created a view of modern politics as a purely negative art – that of defining the least bad society possible. It is in this sense that liberalism has to be understood, and understands itself, as the ‘politics of lesser evil’. And yet while liberalism set out to be a realism without illusions, today liberalism presents itself as something else. With its celebration of the market among other things, contemporary liberalism has taken over some of the features of its oldest enemy. By unravelling the logic that lies at the heart of the liberal project, Michea is able to shed fresh light on one of the key ideas that have shaped the civilization of the West.

Author : Anton Pelinka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351290509
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Lesser Evil written by Anton Pelinka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his pathbreaking book, Leadership, James MacGregor Burns defines a kind of leadership with an indistinguishable personal impact on society. He calls this "transformal" leadership, and sees it as more than routine and calculable responses to demands. In fact, he argues, the more stable a liberal democracy, the less freedom of action for transformal leadership. Anton Pelinka uses a wellspring of historical fact to argue that politics always means having to choose between the lesser of two evils and that democracy reduces any possibility of personal leadership.According to Pelinka, Jaruzelski's politics of democratization in Poland in the 1980s (which led to the first free and competitive elections in a communist system) illustrate personal leadership hampered by democracy. Jaruzelski initiated the roundtable process that transformed Poland into a democracy; yet, this process ultimately ended with his abdication. Pelinka further emphasizes contradictions between transformal leadership and democracy by comparing the leadership styles of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. He de-.scribes collaboration, resistance, and tensions between domestic and international leadership, using the American examples of Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon and the European examples of Petain and Churchill. Pelinka then turns to the tragic fate of the Judenrate under the Nazi regime to illustrate the "lesser-evil" approach. He closes with a discussion of "moral leadership" and how abstaining from office, just as Gandhi and King did, may be particularly suited to stable democracies.Pelinka's unique use of rich empirical evidence from twentieth-century history is this volume's hallmark. He is critical of mainstream political theory and its neglect of deviant examples of democracies - such as Switzerland, Italy, and Japan, where there is traditionally much less emphasis placed on leadership. Pelinka's noteworthy study will be essential reading for political scientists and theorists, political philosophers and political sociologists with special interest in political ethics, and contemporary historians.

Author : Erin M. Evans
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
ISBN 13 : 078695941X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brimstone Angels written by Erin M. Evans and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series set in D&D’s Forgotten Realms, about twin tiefling sisters, an alluring yet unsettling half-demonic race of outcasts Rejected at birth and raised in a village of tiefling misfits, Farideh expects a life without friends, love, or control over her destiny. Then she makes a pact with a devil named Lorcan, and everything changes. Lorcan promises all she ever dreamed of and asks for nothing in return. Her twin sister Havilar urges Farideh to resist the devil’s sway. But Farideh’s not so sure. Lorcan may be dangerous but the power he offers is exhilarating. In the ruins of Neverwinter, Farideh’s doubts get tangled up in a devilish snare six layers deep. A succubus playing human pawns against an otherworldly foe sees the twins as obstacles in her path. And Lorcan’s monstrous sisters have their eyes on the city—and on Farideh. There’s no time to question her pact with Lorcan—it will take every ounce of Farideh’s newfound powers to get out of Neverwinter alive. Brimstone Angels is the first book in the Brimstone Angels series. Titles in Erin Evans’ Brimstone Angels Series Brimstone Angels Brimstone Angels: Lesser Evils The Adversary Fire in the Blood Ashes of the Tyrant The Devil You Know

Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691123934
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lesser Evil written by Michael Ignatieff and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Must we fight terrorism with terror, match assassination with assassination, and torture with torture? Must we sacrifice civil liberty to protect public safety? In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But we are pulled in the other direction too by the anxiety that a violent response to violence makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies. There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than trying to win the war against terror without losing our democratic souls. Michael Ignatieff confronts this challenge head-on, with the combination of hard-headed idealism, historical sensitivity, and political judgment that has made him one of the most influential voices in international affairs today. Ignatieff argues that we must not shrink from the use of violence--that far from undermining liberal democracy, force can be necessary for its survival. But its use must be measured, not a program of torture and revenge. And we must not fool ourselves that whatever we do in the name of freedom and democracy is good. We may need to kill to fight the greater evil of terrorism, but we must never pretend that doing so is anything better than a lesser evil. In making this case, Ignatieff traces the modern history of terrorism and counter-terrorism, from the nihilists of Czarist Russia and the militias of Weimar Germany to the IRA and the unprecedented menace of Al Qaeda, with its suicidal agents bent on mass destruction. He shows how the most potent response to terror has been force, decisive and direct, but--just as important--restrained. The public scrutiny and political ethics that motivate restraint also give democracy its strongest weapon: the moral power to endure when the furies of vengeance and hatred are spent. The book is based on the Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 2003.

Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198023308
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Power written by Michael J. Perry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to his Morality, Politics, and Law, Michael Perry addresses the proper relation of moral convictions to the politics of a morally pluralistic society. While his analysis focuses on religious morality, Perry's argument applies to morality generally. Contending that no justification of a contested political choice can be neutral among competing conceptions of human good, the author develops an ideal of "ecumenical politics" in which moral convictions about human good can be brought to bear in a productive way in political argument.

Author : Khorshed Bhavnagri
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 817992985X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laws of the Spirit World written by Khorshed Bhavnagri and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH A BRAND NEW LOOK! ON FEBRUARY 22, 1980, KHORSHED AND RUMI BHAVNAGRI’S WORLD WAS SHATTERED. ONE MONTH LATER, A NEW ONE OPENED. Khorshed and Rumi Bhavnagri lost their sons, Vispi and Ratoo, in a tragic car crash. With both their sons gone, the couple felt they would not survive for long. They had lost all faith in God until a miraculous message from the Spirit World gave them hope and sent them on an incredible journey.

Author : Anselm Jappe
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785355821
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writing on the Wall written by Anselm Jappe and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that such an eventuality would inevitably result in the liberation of humanity, as many orthodox Marxists claim? Through a collection of specially revised essays, first published in France between 2007 and 2010, Anselm Jappe draws on the radical new perspective of “the critique of value” as a critical tool with which to understand today’s world and to re-examine the question of human emancipation. The Writing on the Wall offers a powerful new analysis of the decomposition of capitalism and its critics.

Author : Charles H. Reynolds
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520062627
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community in America written by Charles H. Reynolds and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Gilligan
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449772447
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surprisingly Supernatural written by Neil Gilligan and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprisingly Supernatural: A Practical Guide to Releasing the Gifts of the Spirit teaches believers to receive the gifts of the Spirit, and then how to release the spiritual gifts of prophecy, healings and miracles, discernment, and binding or driving out demons. Then the believers are encouraged to bring in the harvest. When believers learn how to release the gifts of the Spirit that is what the Bride of Christ is to do at the end of the age, and then she will enter into the wedding banquet (see Matt. 24:14; 25:9-10). You Will Learn That you are supposed to ask for the Holy Spirit, and ask for the gifts of the Spirit, and being continually filled by the Spirit was what the first disciples experienced, and they were the first ones called Christians. That if you will learn the conditions required for you to hear Gods voice, then you will be able to prophecy. That if you will learn the keys to healing, then you will begin to see the sick healed when you lay your hands on them. That when you ask for the gift of discernment, then you will begin to discern demons and the defilement that is around you. Then you can cast out those demons. That leylines are spiritual highways that demons travel on over the earth, and you will learn how to clean them off. That when you release the gifts of the Spirit, you will easily be able to show nonbelievers that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is the Savior of the World. That the Bride of Christ is to be continually filled by the Spirit until she is clothed in the armor of light and clothed in Jesus Christ, then she will bring glory to the Lord (see Rom. 13:12, 14)

Author : Amy Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351931695
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hannah Arendt written by Amy Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential social and political theorists of the 20th century. This volume brings together the most important English-language essays of the past 30 years on Arendt's unique and lasting contributions to social and political philosophy.