Politics is often characterized as the "art of compromise"--the
implication being that compromise is desirable and that insight,
imagination, discipline, and skill are all necessary for a
satisfactory and successful compromise. Compromise in ethics,
however, is quite another matter: there, it is usually regarded as
a sign of weakness or lack of integrity. From Socrates and Sir
Thomas More to Gandhi, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther
King, Jr., we revere these men and women not only for the nature of
their convictions but also for their unwavering refusal to
compromise.
Does this point to an important difference between politics and
ethics? Martin Benjamin here explores, in the first book-length
treatment, the surprisingly rich and complex notion of compromise
and integrity in ethics and politics. With wide-ranging examples
drawn from Tolstoy to Ralph Nader and from a variety of medical and
bioethical cases Benjamin presents in a clear, straightforward
fashion an examination of the interplay between compromise and
integrity.
In the process, Benjamin tackles tough questions--the
relationship between practical and theoretical ethics, what
compromise means for ethical theory, how moral judgments affect
compromise, and whether it is possible to compromise without being
compromised. In the final chapter Benjamin explores the possibility
of political compromise in a matter of great ethical
significance--abortion.
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