Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Making the World Safe for Utilitarianism
- Innocent Before God: Politics, Morality and the Case of Billy Budd
- Democracy and Openness
- Rights and Human Rights
- Prerogative to Depart from Equality
- Casting the First Stone: Who Can, and Who Can't, Condemn the Terrorists?
- Against Egalitarianism
- Big Decision: Opting, Converting, Drifing
- The Epistemology of Unjust War
- High Culture, Low Politics
- Edmund Burke and the Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty
- The Politics of Emotion: Liberalism and Cognitivism
- Index of Names
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Making the World Safe for Utilitarianism
- Innocent Before God: Politics, Morality and the Case of Billy Budd
- Democracy and Openness
- Rights and Human Rights
- Prerogative to Depart from Equality
- Casting the First Stone: Who Can, and Who Can't, Condemn the Terrorists?
- Against Egalitarianism
- Big Decision: Opting, Converting, Drifing
- The Epistemology of Unjust War
- High Culture, Low Politics
- Edmund Burke and the Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty
- The Politics of Emotion: Liberalism and Cognitivism
- Index of Names
Summary
The papers printed in this volume were based on lectures given in London as the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Annual Lecture Series for 2004-5. Taken overall, they present a number of contrasting perspectives on political philosophy as it currently stands.
While I would like to thank all the contributors to both the volume and the series, I have, with sadness, to record that Oswald Hanfling died during the preparation of the volume. His contribution to this volume, characteristically careful and forceful at the same time, underlines the loss to the philosophical community which his death entails.
I should also like to thank Marcela Herdova for her help in preparing the volume for the press and also for compiling the index.
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- Political Philosophy , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007