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Integrity, Personal, and Political

Autor Shmuel Nili
en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2020
Conventional philosophical wisdom holds that no agent can invoke its own moral integrity -- no agent can invoke fidelity to its deepest ethical commitments -- as an independent moral consideration. This is because moral integrity simply consists in doing what is, all-things-considered, the right thing. Integrity argues that this conventional wisdom is mistaken with regard to individual agents, but is especially misguided with regard to liberal democracies as collective agents. Even more than individual persons, liberal democracies as collective agents often face integrity considerations of independent moral force, affecting the moral status of actual political decisions. After defending this philosophical thesis, this book illustrates its practical value in thinking through a wide range of practical policy problems. These problems range from 'dirty' national security policies, through the moral status of political honours celebrating political figures of questionable integrity, to the 'clean hands' dilemmas of political operatives who enable media demagogues to scapegoat vulnerable ethnic and racial minorities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198859635
ISBN-10: 0198859635
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 163 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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[G]enuinely original...Nili speaks to some of the most pressing political questions of our age in aunique and philosophically provocative way...a rich and analytically sophisticated work...Integrity, Personal and Political will drive the discussion of integrity in moral and political philosophy for many years to come.
The work is exceptionally good. Indeed, it may well become—I think it should—a classic. In any case, it clearly deserves a wide audience by virtue of its important insights into the nature of integrity, the ease with which it traverses a wide range of disciplines (ethics, political theory, American politics, media studies), its analytic rigor, and its dexterity in bringing theory and practice together...I do not think that it is going too far to say that [Nili] has created a new subject matter for us.
Integrity has received a mixed press from political and moral philosophers. Many regard it as at best unnecessary and at worst pernicious. Against this view, Shmulik Nili proposes an innovative account of integrity as a valuable and necessary quality of personal character and especially of political institutions, supporting rather than hindering morally and politically appropriate action by citizens and politicians. The resulting defence of integrity is both highly original and, as his discussions of Berlusconi, Trump, and Netanyahu reveal, extremely timely.

Notă biografică

Shmuel Nili is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and a Research Fellow at the School of Philosophy, the Australian National University. His publications include The People's Duty (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and he has published numerous essays in leading journals such as Ethics, The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Politics.