Messy morality : the challenge of politics /

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Author / Creator:	Coady, C. A. J.
Imprint:	Oxford ; Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 123 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Uehiro series in practical ethics Uehiro series in practical ethics.
Subject:	Political ethics. Political ethics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187020

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ISBN:	9780191549717 0191549711 1281865699 9781281865694 0199212082 9780199212088 9780199594986 0199594988
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Tony Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He steers a course between realism, which rejects morality in politics, and moralism, which has a distorting influence on a realistic political morality; he seeks to rehabilitate the concept of ideals; and he discusses the contentious topics of 'dirty hands' and lying in politics. - ;Tony Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He confronts the complex intellectual tradition known as realism, which seems to deny any relevance of morality to politics, especially international politics. He argues that, alt.
Other form:	Print version: Coady, C.A.J. Messy morality. Oxford ; Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199212088 0199212082
Standard no.:	9786611865696

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