Sincerity in Politics and International Relations

ISBN-13: 9781032096957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Sorin Baiasu; Sylvie Loriaux

Opis

This work examines concept of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters should they work, and how their decisions and actions could be made consistent with morality.

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Spis treści

Introduction   Part 1: Publicity  1. Political Deception: Lowering the Bar  2. The Role of Public Reason's Principle of Sincerity  3. Speaking on Morality's Behalf: When One Should Be Silent and Why  4. What Can We Learn About Political Corruption From Kant's Conceptions of Honesty, Publicity and Truthfulness?  Part 2: Rhetoric  5. The Political Rhetoric of Administrative Ethics: Obama VS. the Cynics  6. A Kantian Rhetoric of Sincerity: Politics, Truth and Truthfulness  7. Making Sense: The Possibility of Truthfulness In Politics  8.  On Doubt and Otherness: Deconstructing Power and Dissent  Part 3: Institutions  9. Political Dissimulation a la Kant: Two Limits of the Sincerity Requirement  10. Pretending Peace: Provisional Political Trust and Sinceriy in Kant and Amery  11. Governing by Trust: Sincerity as a Procedural Fairness Norm  12. Truth-Telling and Right-Speaking in European Integration Politics: From Theory to Practice and Back

O autorze

Sorin Baiasu is Professor of Philosophy at Keele University, UK. Apart from articles and chapters, he authored Kant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics　(2011), and edited and co-edited several collections.

Sylvie Loriaux is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Laval University, Canada. She contributed articles to various journals, including Moral Philosophy and Politics and the European Journal of Political Theory.