{"product_id":"politics-and-morality-9780745629681","title":"Politics and Morality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublic disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. In this book, Susan Mendus asks if politicians can be morally good or whether politics is destined to involve dirty hands or the loss of integrity, as many modern philosophers claim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A very good introductory text and ought to be compulsory reading for undergraduates working in political philosophy and ethics.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eRes Publica\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An elegant, insightful and incisive essay.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Applied Philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sue Mendus's examination of integrity in public life deftly combines rigourous philosophical arguments and astute empirical examples. This book is characteristically lively and very interesting: a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between politics and morality in general, and the problem of dirty hands in particular.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCecile Fabre, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Edinburgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is all too easy to view politics as a dirty business that so corrupts the men and women who engage in it that those who are not lacking in moral integrity when they start out soon become so. In her careful study, Mendus explores the very real tensions that exist between personal morality and the public moral duties of politics. In the process, she shows how the conventional cynicism about political life is often misplaced - an attitude corrosive of the morality internal to politics itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Bellamy, \u003ci\u003eUniversity College, London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Integrity 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Political Integrity 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Integrity and Utilitarianism 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Integrity and Pluralism 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Integrity and Social Roles 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 128\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359139823959,"sku":"9780745629681","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745629681.jpg?v=1754123756","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-and-morality-9780745629681","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}