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Political Violence: The Problem of Dirty Hands

This paper argues that the reason why political leadership often involves dirty hands is because of its relationship with violence. To make the case, it maintains that violent means create and assert ... International Affairs, 28 ( 3 ): 365 - 81 . Erman , Eva, and Niklas Möller . 2022 . Distinctively political normativity in political theory . Philosophy Compass 17 . https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3. 12835 . Fabre

Machiavellian Variations, or When Moral Convictions and Political Duties Collide

ultimate decisions; it follows that people who wish not to dirty their hands should thus refrain from entering the political realm. ... Political Action: the Problem of Dirty Hands (1973) fifty years after its publication reminds us of the reasons why this essay has enjoyed such popularity and high standing among moral and political theorists

The Non-Political Foundations of the Problem of Dirty Hands

, Walzer’s capacious initial frame – properly articulated in terms of general moral philosophy, as I have shown – quickly gives way to a secondary frame, articulated in much narrower political terms. Walzer’s ... responsibility: essays in the philosophy of Law . 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hillberg , Raul. 1980 . The Ghetto as a form of government . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

How to Protect Children? A Pragmatic Approach: On State Intervention and Children’s Welfare

these decisions: It rests on premises rooted in classic liberal political philosophy, which is prevalent in many Western societies, such as a strong commitment to individualism, a separation of private ... political philosophy, such as the status and value of childhood, justice within families, rights of parents, children’s rights, justification of paternalistic intervention, care ethics, educational ideals

50 Years of Dirty Hands: An Overview

This chapter introduces the Special Issue and offers an overview of the corpus of work on the topic since the publication of Michael Walzer’s seminal article, ‘Political Action: The Problem of Dirty ... The Society for Ethical and Legal Philosophy (SELF), whose specific aim was to address pressing political issues in a philosophi‑ cal manner. His colleagues consisted of many of the great analytical

The Moral Entitlements of Future Persons: Expectancies and Prospective Beneficiaries

: Cambridge University Press. Gheaus , A. 2016 . The right to parent and duties concerning future generations . The Journal of Political Philosophy 24 : 487 - 508 . Gosseries , A. 2008 . On future generations ... ' future rights . The Journal of Political Philosophy 16 : 446 - 474 . Hampton , J. 1998 . Political philosophy . Boulder: Westview Press. Hart , H.L.A. 1994 . The concept of law , 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon

Employers have a Duty of Beneficence to Design for Meaningful Work: A General Argument and Logistics Warehouses as a Case Study

. disciplines studying meaningful work, most prominently work and organizational psychology, sociology, business ethics, and political philosophy. Notwithstanding this variety, we hold that the characterizations ... ever-growing role of technology in the workplace, fueled by artificial intelligence, adds urgency to questions debated in political philosophy regarding whether it is a matter of social justice that

Automation, Alignment, and the Cooperative Interface

be motivated by pointing out that the value of basic social cooperation is implicit in the social contract tradition that is the central tradition of modern political philosophy. Hobbesian ... cooperation with each other (e.g. Narveson 2001: 142–159) . And in the contractualism of John Rawls, which played a defining role in the resurgence of political philosophy in the late twentieth century, the

The Expressive Function of Healthcare

objections against its significance. This conclusion has important implications for theorists of (health) justice and for political philosophers more widely, highlighting the appropriate role of healthcare ... disagreement with it – for prudential reasons, namely, due to its significant influence in the philosophy of health and political theory literature, and because it strikes a middle ground between the overly

Solidarity Among Strangers During Natural Disasters: How Economic Insights May Improve Our Understanding of Virtues

where markets serve the public good and where they don’t belong, it should relinquish the claim to be a value-neutral science and reconnect with its origins in moral and political philosophy” (Sandel ... moral philosophy . Philosophy 33 ( 124 ): 1 - 19 . Aranzadi , J. 2013 . The natural link between Virtue Ethics and Political Virtue: the morality of the market . Journal of Business Ethics 118 ( 3 ): 487

Kant on the Normativity of Obligatory Ends

teleological judgement and the role of prudence for his political philosophy. decision to perform (or not perform) a meritorious action” (432). For her it is duty, specifically virtues of love, that ultimately ... . Klein , Joel. 2021 . On serpents and doves: the systematic relationship between prudence and morality in Kant's political philosophy . Kant-Studien 112 ( 1 ): 78 - 104 . Kleingeld , Pauline. 2020 . How to

Institutions, Automation, and Legitimate Expectations

: Questions in Ethics and Political Philosophy . Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics , Volume 14 . Cham: Springer. Rawls , John. 1971 . A Theory of Justice . Harvard University Press ... : Freedom, Justice and Capital in the Age of Artificial Intelligence . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 0 ( 0 ): 1 - 25 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230. 2021 .2008204

Justifying Why Individuals Should Reduce Personal Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Developing the Argument of Integrity

Humans ought to do much more in order to remedy the severe harm caused by climate change. While there seems to be an overall consensus that governments and other national and international political ... average temperature at a sustainable level (IPCC 2018) .1 Overall the consensus seems to be that large-scale political agreements are essential for 1 Additional strategies to mitigate the harm caused by

The Institutional Laundry: How the Public May Keep Their Hands Clean

stable political order, then such democratic dirty hands are necessary for any stable democracy. Our dirt is the unavoidable cost of democratic survival. In this paper, I offer an argument against this ... . Philosophy and Public Affairs 2 ( 2 ): 160 - 180 . Weber , M. 1994 . Political writings .Cambridge texts in the history of political thought, ed. Peter Lassman and Ronald Speirs . Cambridge: Cambridge

Freedom, Equality, and Justifiability to All: Reinterpreting Liberal Legitimacy

According to John Rawls’s famous Liberal Principle of Legitimacy, the exercise of political power is legitimate only if it is justifiable to all citizens. The currently dominant interpretation of ... 1 Introduction One of the classical problems in political philosophy is the problem of political legitimacy. This is the problem of whether, and in virtue of what, a government may possess the right

What Makes Work “Good” in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Islamic Perspectives on AI-Mediated Work Ethics

; 45–46 Ibn Sīnā 1957: 496, Marlow 1997: 53–64; Black 2011: 74, 76) . The significance of work and labour for society was expounded by Muslim philosophers as part of their broader political philosophy ... look like, except a note in passing about Islamic philosophy, arguing that it aided the shift from sense-based to intellectual perception (QCRI 2019: 3–4, 7–8) . The latest document in this regard is

Meaningful Work and Achievement in Increasingly Automated Workplaces

threat to meaningful work to be a political-economic one. The relevant ethical questions there have to do with how much creative control workers retain in crafting their own jobs, when those jobs involve ... Groundwork (completable) with doing philosophy (not completable); or nursing a loved one back to health (completable) with caring for her 4 This broad characterization of achievements is not very controversial

Introduction: Ethics of Childhood

(Vandenhole et al. 2015). Here, many overlaps exist with questions of ethics and political philosophy, which, while primarily devoted to moral rights, always have their political, legal and practical ... are shaping the protests for political change, which could also serve ethics and philosophy to think again more carefully about the agency of young people. The texts in this Special Issue can, of

Applications of the Wide Reflective Equilibrium

agreement about the correctness or at least the validity of practical norms. The justification of norms is the core task of practical philosophy. However, there is no consensus in the scientific debate about ... rationalities: Gate- Analyzing specific keeping in health care moral problems Reflective equilibrium as a Construction theory of moral change of principles or theories Democratic theory and political Analyzing

Military Training and Revisionist Just War Theory’s Practicability Problem

moral equality of combatants . Journal of Political Philosophy 14 ( 4 ): 377 - 393 . McMahan , Jeff . 2008 . The morality of war and the law of war . In Just and unjust warriors, ed. David Rodin and Henry ... inoperable moral philosophy as true. Henry Shue addresses revisionism’s practicability problem in a different manner, arguing that “[…] principles that are intended to be action-guiding must be understandable