After the Standard Dirty Hands Thesis: Towards a Dynamic Account of Dirty Hands in Politics

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• 作者：Demetris Tillyris
• 关键词：Dirty hands ; Machiavelli ; MacIntyre ; Political ethics ; Moral conflict
• 刊名：Ethical Theory & Moral Practice
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：19
• 期：1
• 页码：161-175
• 全文大小：235 KB
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• 作者单位：Demetris Tillyris (1)
  
  1. Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
  
• 刊物主题：Ethics; Political Philosophy; Ontology;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-8447

文摘

This essay locates the problem of dirty hands (DH) within virtue ethics – specifically Alasdair MacIntyre’s neo-Aristotelian thesis in After Virtue. It demonstrates that, contra contemporary expositions of this problem, MacIntyre’s thesis provides us with a more nuanced account of tragedy and DH in ordinary life, in its conventional understanding as a stark, rare and momentary conflict in which moral wrongdoing is inescapable. The essay then utilizes elements from MacIntyre’s thesis as a theoretical premise for Machiavelli’s thought so as to set the foundations for a nascent but richer framework of DH in politics and move beyond the standard, ‘static’ conceptualization of the problem within this context. In developing a dynamic account of DH, I conceive of politics as a distinct practice and way of life, with its own demands and standards of excellence, and draw on Machiavelli’s thought to sketch some of these. The dynamic account uncovers an inexhaustible tension between two ways of life, each with its own demands and standards of excellence: a virtuous politician should become partially vicious and no longer innocent. Understood in dynamic terms, DH in politics involves a paradox of character, not just a paradox of action as the standard, ‘static’ DH thesis suggests.