Careful attention to contemporary political debates, including those around global warming,
the federal debt, and the use of drone strikes on suspected terrorists, reveals that we often …

Responsibility has become a relevant topic in world politics as the rising number of
publications shows. Many of them deal with the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), 1 but …

Tony Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He confronts the
complex intellectual tradition known as realism, which seems to deny any relevance of …

Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live.
Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and distrust, and electoral turnout in many …

Politics cannot function without responsibility, but there have been serious disagreements
about how responsibility is to be understood and huge controversies about how it is to be …

In broad strokes, political realists reject what has become called the 'ethics first'view or
'political moralism'in political philosophy (Williams 2005; Geuss 2008), which typically …

This essay-for want of a more adequate phrase-is about a certain style of political activity:
about the manner in which a political actor should engage in politics. We are not telling …

We are strongly inclined to believe in moral responsibility-the idea that certain human
agents truly deserve moral praise or blame for some of their actions. However, recent …

POLITICAL theorists and philosophers typically think of agents as morally responsible for
injustice when two conditions obtain: the agents' behavior—their acts, attempts, and …

What is the relationship between morals and politics? What is the relationship between
moral philosophy and political philosophy? Defenders of political moralism postulate moral …