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Paradoxes of Political Ethics - From Dirty Hands to the Invisible Hand (Paperback)
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Paradoxes of Political Ethics - From Dirty Hands to the Invisible Hand (Paperback)
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How do the hard facts of political responsibility shape and
constrain the demands of ethical life? That question lies at the
heart of the problem of 'dirty hands' in public life. Those who
exercise political power often feel they must act in ways that
would otherwise be considered immoral: indeed, paradoxically, they
sometimes feel that it would be immoral of them not to perform or
condone such acts as killing or lying. John Parrish offers a
wide-ranging account of how this important philosophical problem
emerged and developed, tracing it - and its proposed solutions -
from ancient Greece through the Enlightenment. His central argument
is that many of our most familiar concepts and institutions - from
Augustine's interiorised ethics, to Hobbes's sovereign state, to
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand', understanding of the modern
commercial economy - were designed partly as responses to the
ethical problem of dirty hands in public life.
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