Philosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality. Few clear answers have emerged, however, in large part because of the inherently speculative nature of traditional philosophical methods. This book aims to forge a bold …
Avec le drone armé, entre la gâchette sur laquelle on a le doigt et le canon d'où va sortir le projectile, ce sont des milliers de kilomètres qui s'intercalent. Cette mise à distance fait éclater la notion même de guerre. Dans la guerre à distance, peu importe que ce soient des …
Avec le drone armé, entre la gâchette sur laquelle on a le doigt et le canon d'où va sortir le projectile, ce sont des milliers de kilomètres qui s'intercalent. Cette mise à distance fait éclater la notion même de guerre. Dans la guerre à distance, peu importe que ce soient des …
The author draws on the historical wisdom of Sun-Tzu, Thucydides, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and other great thinkers to provide advice for modern-day world leaders confronted with the complex challenges of modern life.
According to traditional models of human rights, states are responsible for securing the rights of their citizens. But these models do not fit reality: States are often unwilling or unable to live up to their obligations, but if human rights are to be more than empty words, then…
"In Systems of Survival, Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes - one governing commerce, the other, politics - and explores what happenes when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, government's overextended subsidies to agricu…
The din and deadlock of public life in America - where insults are traded, slogans proclaimed, and self-serving deals are made and unmade - reveal the deep disagreement that pervades our democracy. The disagreement is not only political but also moral, as citizens and their repr…
Sport has enjoyed steadily increasing prominence and economic importance since the millennium. But threats to its integrity appear to have grown in parallel, undermining the very sense of innocence and fun which is an important part of its appeal. Threats to the spirit of sport …
In None so Fit to Break the Chains Dan Swain offers an interpretation of Marx's ethics that foregrounds his commitment to working class self-emancipation and uses it as a guiding thread to interpret a number of different aspects of Marx's ethical thought. This commitment is freq…
