Compromise, Peace and Public Justification

Fabian Wendt

ISBN 10: 3319288768 / ISBN 13: 9783319288765

Published by Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice. 296 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Compromise, Peace and Public Justification
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing Jul 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319288768
• ISBN 13: 9783319288765
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice.

About the Author

Fabian Wendt is a Temporary Professor of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany. He has previously been an Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona, USA.