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This volume addresses issues of moral pluralism and polarization by drawing attention to the transcendent character of the good. It probes the history of Christian theology and moral philosophy to investigate the value of this idea and then relates it to contemporary moral issues.The good is transcendent in that it goes beyond concrete goods, things, acts, or individual preferences. It functions as the pole of a compass that helps orient our moral life. This volume explores the critical tension between the transcendent good and its concrete embodiments in the world through concepts like conscience, natural and divine law, virtue, and grace. The chapters are divided into three parts. Part I discusses metaphysical issues like the realist nature and the unity of the good in relation to philosophical, naturalist, and theological approaches from Augustine to Iris Murdoch. The chapters in Part II explore issues about knowing the transcendent good and doing good, exemplified in the delicate balance between divine command and human virtuousness. Early Protestant theological views prove to be excellent interlocutors for this reflection. Finally, Part III focuses on how transcendence is at stake in two heavily debated moral issues of today: euthanasia and the family.The Transcendent Character of the Good will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in theological ethics, moral philosophy, and the history of ethics.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On Justification is the first English translation of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot's ambitious theoretical examination of these phenomena, a book that has already had a huge impact on French sociology and is likely to h.

Social sciences --- Economics --- Justification (Theory of knowledge) --- Philosophy. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Abjection. --- Acquiescence. --- Ad hominem. --- Ambiguity. --- Anecdote. --- Antinomy. --- Apathy. --- Arbitrariness. --- Attempt. --- Calculation. --- Common good. --- Competition (economics). --- Concurrence. --- Consciousness. --- Consideration. --- Conspiracy of silence (expression). --- Controversy. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Deliberation. --- Denunciation. --- Determination. --- Divine law. --- Division of labour. --- Double Movement. --- Economics. --- Etiquette. --- Eugenics. --- Explanation. --- Externality. --- Externalization. --- False consciousness. --- Fraud. --- Hedonism. --- Holism. --- Honour. --- Household. --- Hypocrisy. --- Hypothesis. --- Impasse. --- Impossibility. --- Impulsivity. --- Individualism. --- Information asymmetry. --- Institution. --- Know-how. --- Legitimacy (political). --- Liberalism. --- Medium of exchange. --- Michael Polanyi. --- Morality. --- Multitude. --- Necessity. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Obscenity. --- Obsolescence. --- Occam's razor. --- Opportunism. --- Paternalism. --- Political philosophy. --- Politique. --- Prejudice. --- Pride. --- Principle. --- Public morality. --- Public opinion. --- Public sphere. --- Relativism. --- Religion. --- Requirement. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Science. --- Scientism. --- Self-control. --- Self-deception. --- Self-interest. --- Self-love. --- Slavery. --- Social criticism. --- Social science. --- Sociology. --- Sovereignty. --- State of nature. --- Superiority (short story). --- Synderesis. --- Synecdoche. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Torture. --- Uncertainty. --- Union Movement. --- Uniqueness. --- Utilitarianism. --- Value (ethics). --- Wealth. --- Writing. --- Émile Durkheim.

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Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy, Professor Zerba discusses the efforts of modern critics to locate in Aristotle's Poetics the origins of this focus on agon. Through a study of ethical and political ideas formative of the Poetics, she demonstrates why Aristotle and his Renaissance and Neoclassical beneficiaries exclude conflict from their accounts of tragedy. The agonistic element, the book argues, first emerges in dramatic criticism in nineteenth-century Romantic theories of the sublime and, more influentially, in Hegel's lectures on drama and history.This turning point in the history of speculation about tragedy is examined with attention to a dynamic between the systematic aims of theory and the subversive conflicts of tragic plays. In readings of various Classical and Renaissance dramatists, Professor Zerba reveals that strife in tragedy undermines expectations of coherence, closure, and moral stability, on which theory bases its principles of dramatic order. From Aristotle to Hegel, the philosophical interest in securing these principles determines attitudes toward conflict.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Conflict (Psychology) in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Drama --- Aristotle. --- Aeschylus. --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Anguish. --- Antinomy. --- Antithesis. --- Appeal to emotion. --- Ars Poetica (Horace). --- Averroes. --- Bussy D'Ambois. --- Catharsis. --- Characters of Shakespear's Plays. --- Classical unities. --- Classicism. --- Closed circle. --- Coluccio Salutati. --- Consciousness. --- Contemptus mundi. --- Critical theory. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Decorum. --- Deontological ethics. --- Dialectic. --- Disputation. --- Dissoi logoi. --- Divine law. --- Dramatic theory. --- Ethical dilemma. --- Euripides. --- Existentialism. --- Externality. --- Francis Fergusson. --- Good and evil. --- Greek tragedy. --- Hamartia. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hedonism. --- Hegelianism. --- Hubris. --- Intentionality. --- Irony. --- Irrational Man. --- Irrationality. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jean Hyppolite. --- Karl Jaspers. --- King Lear. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Lodovico Castelvetro. --- Mental space. --- Mimesis. --- Moral absolutism. --- Moral realism. --- Morality. --- Myth. --- New Thought. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- On Truth. --- Pathos. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pity. --- Platitude. --- Plautus. --- Poetics (Aristotle). --- Poetry. --- Polonius. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Prohairesis. --- Quintilian. --- Rationality. --- Renaissance tragedy. --- Republic (Plato). --- Revenge tragedy. --- Rhetoric. --- Romanticism. --- Satire. --- Scholasticism. --- Shakespearean tragedy. --- Sophocles. --- Stephen Greenblatt. --- Suffering. --- Superiority (short story). --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- Teleology. --- The Birth of Tragedy. --- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. --- The Philosopher. --- Theodicy. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kyd. --- Thought. --- Tragic hero. --- Verisimilitude. --- W. D. Ross. --- William Prynne. --- William Shakespeare.

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This book is comprised of essays previously published in Philosophy & Public Affairs and also an extended excerpt from Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars.

International relations --- War --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Ad hominem. --- Aggression. --- Attempt. --- Authoritarianism. --- Blackmail. --- Calculation. --- Casus belli. --- Civil disobedience. --- Civilian. --- Combatant. --- Consent of the governed. --- Consideration. --- Conventional weapon. --- Conventionalism. --- Counterforce. --- Crime against peace. --- Crime. --- Criticism. --- Declaration of war. --- Defensive war. --- Demobilization. --- Deterrence (legal). --- Disarmament. --- Divine law. --- Dr. Strangelove. --- Duress. --- Ethical dilemma. --- Externality. --- God. --- Great power. --- Heresy. --- Heteronomy. --- Hostility. --- Humanitarian intervention. --- Impasse. --- Impunity. --- Insurgency. --- International law. --- International relations. --- Jus ad bellum. --- Just war theory. --- Law of war. --- Moral blindness. --- Moral skepticism. --- Morality. --- Mutual assured destruction. --- Necessity. --- Non-interventionism. --- Nuclear blackmail. --- Nuclear disarmament. --- Nuclear warfare. --- Nuclear weapon. --- Pacifism. --- Peace treaty. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Political alienation. --- Politics Among Nations. --- Power politics. --- Pre-emptive nuclear strike. --- Preemptive war. --- Preventive war. --- Probability. --- Realism (international relations). --- Reprisal. --- Requirement. --- Result. --- Right of self-defense. --- Rights. --- Robert Nozick. --- Secession. --- Second strike. --- Security dilemma. --- Self-defense. --- Self-determination. --- Skepticism. --- Slavery. --- Sovereignty. --- Soviet Union. --- State of nature. --- Subversion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Territorial integrity. --- The Realist. --- Theodicy. --- Theory. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Torture. --- Trade barrier. --- Trade war. --- Treaty. --- Unilateral disarmament. --- Unilateralism. --- Unstated assumption. --- Utilitarianism. --- War of aggression. --- War. --- Warfare. --- Westphalian sovereignty. --- Wickedness.