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Innocence and Experience (Paperback)
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Innocence and Experience (Paperback)
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Human beings have lived by very different conceptions of the good
life. In this book, Stuart Hampshire argues that no individual and
no modern society can avoid conflicts between incompatible moral
interests. Philosophers have tried in the past to find some
underlying moral idea of justice which could resolve these
conflicts and would be valid for any society. Hampshire claims that
there can be no such thing. States can be held together, and war
between them avoided, only by respect for the political process
itself, and it is in these terms that justice must be defined. The
book closely examines the critical relationship between morality
and justice, paying particular attention to Hume's moral
subjectivism (which Hampshire disputes) and proposing a reply to
Machiavelli's claim that the realities of politics inevitably
oblige leaders to choose between unavoidable evils. Most academic
and moral philosophy, Hampshire argues, has been a fairy tale,
representing ideals of private innocence rather than the realities
of public experience. Conflicts between incompatible moral
interests are as unavoidable in social and international arenas as
they are in the lives of individuals. Philosophers, politicians,
and theologians have all looked for an underlying moral consensus
that will be valid for any just society. But the diversity of the
human species and important differences in how various cultures
define the good life militate against the formation of any such
consensus. Ultimately, conflicts can be mediated only by respect
for procedural justice. Hampshire believes that themes of moral
philosophy come from the writer's own experience, and he has given
a brief but compelling account of his own life to help the reader
understand the sources of his philosophy. Combining intellectual
rigor with imaginative power, in Innocence and Experience Stuart
Hampshire vividly illuminates the tensions between justice and
other sources of value in society and in the life of the
individual.
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