After the Standard Dirty Hands Thesis: Towards a Dynamic Account of Dirty Hands in Politics

This essay locates the problem of dirty hands (DH) within virtue ethics - specifically Alasdair MacIntyre’s neo-Aristotelian thesis in After Virtue. It demonstrates that, contra contemporary expositions of this problem, MacIntyre’s thesis provides us with a more nuanced account of tragedy and DH in...

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Main Author: Tillyris, Demetris (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2016]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 161-175
RelBib Classification:NCD Political ethics
TJ Modern history
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Dirty Hands
B Machiavelli
B Political ethics
B MacIntyre
B Moral Conflict
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