TY  - GEN
T1  - The moral foundations of politics
T2  - Yale ISPS series.
A1  - Shapiro, Ian
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn191944657
AB  - When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? In this investigation of this most enduring of political dilemmas, Ian Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract traditions over the past four centuries. Showing how these political philosophies have all been decisively shaped by the core values of the Enlightenment, he demonstrates that each one contains useful insights that survive their failures as comprehensive doctrines and that should inform our thinking about political legitimacy. Shapiro then turns to the democratic tradition. Exploring the main arguments for and against democracy from Plato's time until our own, he argues that democracy offers the best resources for realizing the Enlightenment's promise and managing its internal tensions. As such, democracy supplies the most attractive available basis for political legitimacy.
OP  - 289
CN  - JA79 .S395 2003eb
SN  - 9780300128697
SN  - 030012869X
SN  - 1281721891
SN  - 9781281721891
SN  - 0300079079
SN  - 9780300079074
SN  - 9786611721893
SN  - 6611721894
SN  - 0300079087
SN  - 9780300079081
KW  - Political ethics.
KW  - Political science : Philosophy.
KW  - Legitimacy of governments.
KW  - Morale politique.
KW  - Idées politiques.
KW  - Légitimité des gouvernements.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Essays.
KW  - Legitimacy of governments
KW  - Political ethics
KW  - Political science : Philosophy
KW  - Aufklärung
KW  - Demokratie
KW  - Legitimität
KW  - Marxismus
KW  - Politische Ethik
KW  - Politische Philosophie
KW  - Sozialvertrag
KW  - Utilitarismus
KW  - Politieke ethiek.
KW  - Legitimiteit.
KW  - Politisk etik.
ER  -