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Living with indifference
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ISBN: 128207847X 9786612078477 0253117038 9780253117038 9781282078475 6612078472 0253348560 0253219000 9780253348562 9780253219008 Year: 2007 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Indifference is the dimension of life that is utterly neutral, without care, feeling, or personality. Exploring topics such as time, chance, beauty, imagination, violence, and virtue, Scott shows how affirming indifference can be beneficial, and how destructive consequences can occur when we deny it.


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Moral blindness : the loss of sensitivity in liquid modernity.
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ISBN: 9780745662756 9780745662749 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Polity

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Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one's ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies...


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Losing twice : harms of indifference in the Supreme Court
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ISBN: 0199894442 1283349051 9786613349057 0199838259 9780199894444 019991043X Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law. Here, Emily Calhoun draws upon conflict resolution theory, political theory, and Habermasian discourse theory to argue that in such cases, the Court must work harder to avoid inflicting unnecessary harm on Constitutional losers.


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The good politician : folk theories, political interaction, and the rise of anti-politics
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ISBN: 1108616542 1108631339 1108641350 1316516210 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Surveys show a lack of trust in political actors and institutions across much of the democratic world. Populist politicians and parties attempt to capitalise on this political disaffection. Commentators worry about our current 'age of anti-politics'. Focusing on the United Kingdom, using responses to public opinion surveys alongside diaries and letters collected by Mass Observation, this book takes a long view of anti-politics going back to the 1940s. This historical perspective reveals how anti-politics has grown in scope and intensity over the last half-century. Such growth is explained by citizens' changing images of 'the good politician' and changing modes of political interaction between politicians and citizens. Current efforts to reform and improve democracy will benefit greatly from the new evidence and conceptual framework set out in this important study.

Ennead III.6 : on the impassivity of the bodiless
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ISBN: 0198149654 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon press,


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Ruling the void : the hollowing of Western democracy
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ISBN: 9781781680995 9781844673247 1844673243 Year: 2013 Publisher: London ; New York : Verso,

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"In the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are sapped of enthusiasm. Peter Mair's new book weighs the impact of these changes, which together show that, after a century of democratic aspiration, electorates are deserting the political arena. Mair examines the alarming parallel development that has seen Europe's political elites remodel themselves as a homogeneous professional class, withdrawing into state institutions that offer relative stability in a world of fickle voters. Meanwhile, non-democratic agencies and practices proliferate and gain credibility--not least among them the European Union itself, an organization contributing to the depoliticization of the member states and one whose notorious "democratic deficit" reflects the deliberate intentions of its founders. Ruling the Void offers an authoritative and chilling assessment of the prospects for popular political representation today, not only in the varied democracies of Europe but throughout the developed world." -- Page [4] de la couverture.


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Kant on freedom
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ISBN: 9781009070652 9781009074551 1009074555 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Kant's early critics maintained that his theory of freedom faces a dilemma: either it reduces the will's activity to strict necessity by making it subject to the causality of the moral law, or it reduces the will's activity to blind chance by liberating it from rules of any kind. This Element offers a new interpretation of Kant's theory against the backdrop of this controversy. It argues that Kant was a consistent proponent of the claim that the moral law is the causal law of a free will, and that the supposed ability of free will to choose indifferently between options is an empty concept. Freedom, for Kant, is a power to initiate action from oneself, and the only way to exercise this power is through the law of one's own will, the moral law. Immoral action is not thereby rendered impossible, but it also does not express a genuine ability.

Responsibility, indifference and global poverty : a Levinasian perspective
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ISBN: 9042918225 9789042918221 Year: 2006 Volume: 16 Publisher: Leuven Dudley, MA Peeters

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Consider the fact that thousands of people die daily from preventable, poverty-related causes through no fault of their own. However, despite our failure to prevent more of these preventable deaths, we generally do not seem to consider ourselves particularly guilty, unjust, bad, immoral or irresponsible for our failure to act. This study attempts to understand our continued good conscience amid the suffering of the world's poorest. In doing so, it draws on Emmanuel Levinas's ethical philosophy to demonstrate how writings in the principal debate about the extent of our responsibility for others at the global level, the so-called 'cosmopolitan-communitarian debate', contain a number of elements that enable and perpetuate our indifference to the world's poorest.

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- General ethics --- Levinas, Emmanuel --- Accountability --- Apathie --- Apathy --- Impassivity --- Indiffence --- Justice sociale --- Lusteloosheid --- Moral responsibility --- Obligation --- Rechtvaardigheid [Sociale ] --- Responsabilité --- Responsibility --- Social justice --- Sociale rechtvaardigheid --- Unconcern --- Verantwoordelijkheid --- Obligation morale --- Responsabilité (Morale) --- Responsabilité (Philosophie) --- Responsabilité -- Aspect moral --- Responsabilité -- Philosophie --- Responsabilité morale --- Economic assistance --- Poverty --- Economic aid --- Foreign aid program --- Foreign assistance --- Grants-in-aid, International --- International economic assistance --- International grants-in-aid --- Economic policy --- International economic relations --- Conditionality (International relations) --- Indifference --- Emotions --- Equality --- Justice --- Ethics --- Supererogation --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel. --- Lévinas, E. --- Leṿinas, ʻImanuʼel --- Levinas, Emani︠u︡el --- לוינס׳ עמנואל --- לוינס, עמנואל --- Līfīnās, Īmānwāl --- ليفيناس، إيمانوال --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Responsibility. --- Apathy. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, --- Poverty - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Economic assistance - Moral and ethical aspects --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995


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Soldiering under occupation : processes of numbing among Israeli soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada
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ISBN: 9781782382287 9780857459565 0857459562 1782382283 1782382291 0857459570 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Often, violent behavior or harassment from a soldier is dismissed by the military as unacceptable acts by individuals termed, "rotten apples." In this study, the author argues that this dismissal is unsatisfactory and that there is an urgent need to look at the (mis)behavior of soldiers from a structural point of view. When soldiers serve as an occupational force, they find themselves in a particular situation influenced by structural circumstances that heavily influence their behavior and moral decision-making. This study focuses on young Israeli men and their experiences as combat soldier

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