Books written by John M. Parrish
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The Decline of Mercy in Public Life
McGrath Mill Mill CW Nietzsche BGE Nietzsche GM O'Donovan & O'Donovan Odyssey Paley Plato G Plato L Plato P Grand ... Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1963. ... Cooper, John M. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 1997.
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The Decline of Mercy in Public Life
Understanding the logic of this decline, they argue, will make it possible to promote and defend a more robust role for mercy in public life.
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Manipulating Democracy: Democratic Theory, Political Psychology, and Mass Media
Glauconfirst calls Socrates' image of thecaveand the prisoners in it an atopos (strange or out of place) image (Rep.7.515a). 23. ... Levin, The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophyand Poetry Revisited,p. 9,n. 11. 28.
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Paradoxes of Political Ethics: From Dirty Hands to the Invisible Hand
How do the hard facts of political responsibility shape and constrain the demands of ethical life? That question lies at the heart of the problem of 'dirty hands' in public...
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The Decline of Mercy in Public Life
Mercy is a marginalized virtue in contemporary public life, but understanding its complex conceptual history suggests how that might change.
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Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture
... value and possible conflicts be— tween them, see Thomas Nagel, “The Fragmentation of Value,” in Gowans, Moral Dilemmas. 13. On these concepts see especially Michael Stocker, Plural and Conflicting Values (Oxford, 1990) and Ruth Chang ...
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Paradoxes of Political Ethics: From Dirty Hands to the Invisible Hand
John Parrish offers a wide-ranging account of how this important philosophical problem emerged and developed, tracing it - and its proposed solutions - from ancient Greece through the Enlightenment.