. . . it’s Political Philosophy, edited by Anthony O’Hear, a collection of essays about terrorism, the just war, and the role of emotion in political discourse.
By Tuesday it’ll be shelved on the 3rd floor at JA71 .P62245 2006
Contents:
Making the World Safe for Utilitarianism
Innocent Before God: Politics, Morality and the Case of Billy Budd
Democracy and Openness
Rights and Human Beings
Prerogative to Depart from Equality
Casting the First Stone: Who Can, and Who Can’t, Condemn the Terrorists?
Against Egalitarianism
Big Decision: Opting, Converting, Drifting
The Epistemology of Unjust War
High Culture, Low PoliticsEdmund Burke and the Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty
The Politics of Emotion: Liberalism and Cognitivism