Routledge, 2019. — 577 p. What does it mean to do public policy ethics today? How should philosophers engage with ethical issues in policy-making when policy decisions are circumscribed by political and pragmatic concerns? How do ethical issues in public policy differ between areas such as foreign policy, criminal justice, or environmental policy? The Routledge Handbook of...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 368 p. Actual Ethics offers a moral defense of the “classical liberal” political tradition and applies it to several of today’s vexing moral and political issues. James Otteson argues that a Kantian conception of personhood and an Aristotelian conception of judgment are compatible and even complementary. He shows why they are morally...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 240 p. States of Character: Toward a Theory of Political Vice The Anti-Politics of Hubris: Vice of Sovereignty Accounting for Moral Blindness: Vice of Wholeness Political Recalcitrance: Vice of Exceptionalism After Vice: The Call of Accountability
Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 214 p. ISBN: 052176288X This book, first published in 2009, examines the ways in which reasonable people can disagree about the requirements of political morality. Christopher McMahon argues that there will be a 'zone of reasonable disagreement' surrounding most questions of political morality. Moral notions of right and wrong evolve over...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 309 p. At what point can we concede that the realities of world politics require that moral principles be compromised, and how do we know when a real ethical limit has been reached? This volume gathers leading constructivist scholars to explore the issue of moral limit and possibility in global political dilemmas. The contributors examine...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. 405 p. Is it possible to preserve national security through ethical policies? Richard Ned Lebow seeks to show that ethics are actually essential to the national interest. Recapturing the wisdom of classical realism through a close reading of the texts of Thucydides, Clausewitz and Hans Morgenthau, Lebow argues that, unlike many modern realists,...
Routledge, 2009. 182 p. This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn Frost argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms. International actors are always faced with the ethical...
Full information for bibliographical reference: Lakoff, George. Moral politics: how liberals and conservatives think (second edition). – Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. – 471 p. The author of the book in a professor of linguists and cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founder of the Rockridge Institute. One of the most...