Politics and Prioritization of Evil

In this essay I question an assumption of Card's, which seems to place the (Kantianstyle) ethical in a directive relationship with respect to the political. I call attention to the rupture between the two as a marker of modernity and suggest that the political is not only a sphere of power but...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:	Hypatia 2004-11, Vol.19 (4), p.194-198
1. Verfasser:	On, Bat-Ami Bar
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aristotelean ethics Atrocities Card, Claudia Critical theory Democracy Evil Liberalism Literary criticism Morality Political ethics Political freedom Political philosophy Political revolutions Politics Prioritization Symposium on Claudia Card's Atrocity Paradigm
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Tags:	Tag hinzufügen Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!

Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:	In this essay I question an assumption of Card's, which seems to place the (Kantianstyle) ethical in a directive relationship with respect to the political. I call attention to the rupture between the two as a marker of modernity and suggest that the political is not only a sphere of power but also a value-sedimented field, with the values in question developing historically as in the case of liberal democracy.
ISSN:	0887-5367 1527-2001
DOI:	10.1111/j.1527-2001.2004.tb00155.x