Suchergebnisse

The theory of important criteria -- Value judgments and the theory of important criteria -- The rationality of aesthetic value judgments -- Inapplicable concepts -- Morality and ignorance -- Time in counterfactuals -- Assertion and belief -- Understanding free will -- Selective necessity and the free-will problem -- Is virtue possible? -- Morality not a system of imperatives -- Review of Alvin Plantinga's God and other minds -- Utilitarianism, moral dilemmas, and moral cost -- Object utilitarianism -- Utilitarian virtue -- Moderation, rationality, and virtue -- Rational dilemmas and rational supererogation -- Ethics naturalized -- Nietzsche and virtue ethics -- Caring versus the philosophers -- Global caring, global justice -- Empathy and objectivity -- In place of moral reasoning -- Some thoughts for the future

Modern political theory begins with the rise of the new state in the sixteenth century and both are mutually imbricated around the concept and practice of sovereignty. In the course of the next centuries, sovereignty is generalized as the form of the modern state: eventually, there is no state which is not sovereign, and there is no understanding of the state which does not depend upon the deployment of sovereignty. Yet, argues Gerard Mairet in this rigorous and timely book, just at this moment of the culmination of sovereignty, the limitations and dangers of this theory and practice have become apparent, as have the glimmers of a new form of political community beyond the sovereign state and its rootedness in inter-state violence. For Mairet, Europe, the begetter of the fable of the sovereign state as it consolidated its identity through territorial expansion, becomes the harbinger of a new federative form