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 which
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 the
first 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 interiorized 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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