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How far can we apply the same moral principles to both public and private behaviour. In the interests of effective political action, are we right to accept acts of deceit, exploitation or force which we would regard as unacceptable in private relations with individuals? What means can be properly adopted in the promotion of great public causes? The problem of 'dirty hands' in politics was posed most strikingly by Machiavelli. It has re-emerged this century in a pressing and, to some extent, a new form, in connection with the two World Wars and more recently the Vietnam War, where the political decisions and the destruction, and risks of destruction, have been of a scale and character not previously experienced. The contributors, including Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, T. M. Scanlon, and Ronald Dworkin, examine the background to this problem in moral and political theory

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Early History of Narcotics Use and Narcotics Legislation in the United States -- 2 Bureaucracy and Morality: An Organizational Perspective on a Moral Crusade -- 3 The Marihuana Tax Act -- 4 On Capturing an Opium King: The Politics of Law Sik Han's Arrest -- 5 The Drug Addict as a Folk Devil -- 6 The Police as Amplifiers of Deviancy -- 7 Methadone's Rise and Fall -- 8 The Politics of Drugs -- 9 Knowledge, Power, and Drug Effects -- 10 Playing a Cold Game: Phases of a Ghetto Career -- 11 Street Status and Drug Use -- 12 Drug Pushers: A Collective Portrait -- 13 The Culture of Civility -- 14 Scapegoating "Military Addicts": The Helping Hand Strikes Again -- 15 The Politics of Drugs -- 16 Cannabis, Alcohol, and the Management of Intoxication -- 17 Invitational Edges of Corruption: Some Consequences of Narcotic Law Enforcement -- Contributors -- Index

After reestablishing the connection between morality and the law, the author develops a coherent position on many of the most controversial issues of urban life: the political uses of the streets; verbal assaults and the defamation of racial groups; the legitimate restriction of public speech; segregation, busing, and the use of racial quotas; education, housing, and the problem of the ghetto"; prostitution, gambling, and the "regulation of vices."Originally published in 1981. 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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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

I. Good and Evil -- II. "Is" and "Ought" -- III. Virtue and Temperament -- IV. Subjective and Objective Morality -- V. Ethics and Politics -- VI. Legality and Morality -- VII. Atheism and Ethics -- VIII. Ethics and Aesthetics -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Name Index.

1 / Can Ethics Provide Answers? -- 2 / The Concept of Moral Standing -- 3 / Why Should We be Moral? 41 -- 4 / Economic Justice in Hard Times -- 5 / Rights Versus Duties: No Contest -- 6 / Law and the Legislation of Morality -- 7 / Analytic Methods and the Ethics of Policy -- 8 / The American Pluralist Conception of Politics -- 9 / Minimalist Ethics: On the Pacification of Morality.

Morality and politics, by B. Blanshard.--Love and justice, by R. O. Johann.--Responsibility and freedom, by K. Baier.--The mental health ethic, by T. S. Szasz.--Respect for persons, by E. E. Harris.--Ethics and revolution, by H. Marcuse.--Morality and ideology, by H. D. Aiken.--Utility and moral reasoning, by A. I. Melden.--Ethical fallibility, by C. L. Stevenson