政治职业的美德

Q3 Arts and Humanities

International Journal of Applied Philosophy Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI:10.5840/ijap20201210132

Hilliard Aronovitch

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摘要

本文旨在反驳政治中关于“脏手”的说法，并重新定位这一问题。据称，正派的政客有时必须用大错特错的手段做正确的事情，结果他们在道德上受到了玷污。DH在这里被认为是矛盾的，因为在假设最终正确的情况下，不可能有肮脏或有罪的行为，而政治则因假设相反而被贬低。DH不受道德复杂性、职责冲突或间接遗憾的影响，也不取决于功利主义与义务论。探讨了一个重要的现实世界案例，其中DH可能看起来很明显，但事实并非如此。随着DH的解散，重新聚焦和紧迫的问题涉及到为政治及其棘手案件辨别合适的人格类型。理想：在道德上有良知，但比温柔更坚韧的人。

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Virtues for the Vocation of Politics

This article aims to rebut the claim about Dirty Hands (DH) in politics and reorient the issue. Allegedly, decent politicians must sometimes do what is right by means that are deeply wrong and they are morally tainted as a result. DH is here rejected as contradictory since there can be no dirtying or guilt given the presumption of ultimate rightness, and politics is demeaned by supposing otherwise. DH is not entailed by moral complexity or conflicting duties or circumstantial regret, and does not hinge on utilitarianism versus deontology. A significant real-world case is explored where DH might seem manifest but is not. With DH dissolved, the refocussed and urgent question involves discerning apt personality-types for politics and its hard cases. The ideal: persons exceptional in being morally conscientious but more tough-minded than tender-hearted.

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International Journal of Applied Philosophy Arts and Humanities-Philosophy

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