Politics and Morality

Author:   Susan Mendus (University of York UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9780745629681


Pages:   168
Publication Date:   09 October 2009
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Author:   Susan Mendus (University of York UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.163kg
ISBN:  

9780745629681


ISBN 10:   0745629687
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   09 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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A very good introductory text and ought to be compulsory reading for undergraduates working in political philosophy and ethics. Res Publica An elegant, insightful and incisive essay. Journal of Applied Philosophy Sue Mendus's examination of integrity in public life deftly combines rigourous philosophical arguments and astute empirical examples. This book is characteristically lively and very interesting: a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between politics and morality in general, and the problem of dirty hands in particular. Cecile Fabre, University of Edinburgh It is all too easy to view politics as a dirty business that so corrupts the men and women who engage in it that those who are not lacking in moral integrity when they start out soon become so. In her careful study, Mendus explores the very real tensions that exist between personal morality and the public moral duties of politics. In the process, she shows how the conventional cynicism about political life is often misplaced - an attitude corrosive of the morality internal to politics itself. Richard Bellamy, University College, London


Sue Mendus's examination of integrity in public life deftly combines rigourous philosophical arguments and astute empirical examples. This book is characteristically lively and very interesting: a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between politics and morality in general, and the problem of dirty hands in particular. Cecile Fabre, University of Edinburgh It is all too easy to view politics as a dirty business that so corrupts the men and women who engage in it that those who are not lacking in moral integrity when they start out soon become so. In her careful study, Mendus explores the very real tensions that exist between personal morality and the public moral duties of politics. In the process, she shows how the conventional cynicism about political life is often misplaced - an attitude corrosive of the morality internal to politics itself. Richard Bellamy, University College, London


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Susan Mendus is Professor of Political Philosophy and a member of the Morrell Centre for Toleration at the University of York.

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