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Political Conduct

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Description for Political Conduct Explores how the processes and practices of politics shape political values, such as liberty, justice, equality, and democracy. Mining the history of political episodes and political thinkers, this book argues that it is through political activity that 'values are articulated and embraced, and they become powerful motivating forces'. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.

This book explores how the processes and practices of politics shape political values, such as liberty, justice, equality, and democracy. Mining the history of political episodes and political thinkers, including Caesar and Machiavelli, Mark Philp argues that it is through political activity that "values are articulated and embraced, and they become powerful motivating forces."

Political Conduct is thus an attempt to inform and enrich political theory--to show that its principles would be more relevant to actual politics if they were immersed in history and practice. Philp argues for a separation between moral and political philosophy and proposes that a ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674024885
SKU
V9780674024885
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About Mark Philp
Mark Philp is former Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Oriel College, Oxford.

Reviews for Political Conduct
Political Conduct counters political theory's overemphasis on the identification of needs and obligations with some original ideas about the ways in which we act under the constraints of political society. Political theorists and political scientists alike will welcome its more concrete approach to the study of political morality.
Bernard Yack, Brandeis University Philp has produced a provocative, highly readable, ... Read more

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