The illusion of state neutrality in a secularising Ireland.

West European Politics;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......of religion, the liberal ideal of state neutrality demands of the state that it (a) does...Policy'. On the other hand, the idea of state neutrality is not absent in contemporary Irish...trends suggest that if any kind of state neutrality is to be achieved, it will take the...

Ethics and Activism: The Theory and Practice of Political...

American Political Science Review;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......constitutes the central paradox of political morality. Gross situates his analysis in the...contrasting theories of weak and strong political morality. He finds weak political morality illustrated by the work of Tocqueville...

Political morality?(Features)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 2, 2006 ;     42 words ...SIR - Why on earth should MPs from Wales have any say (let alone a vote) on Tony Blair's proposals for educational reforms which apply only to England? Never mind about their constitutional rights; what about a bit of political morality? SILVAN JONES Queens Road, Llandudno

Political morality and culture: what difference do differences...

Social Theory and Practice;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Introduction Can a conception of political morality--specifically, a conception of justice...explicitly claim that their account of political morality enjoys legitimacy in all societies...cultural differences for a conception of political morality. In recent years, a range of ...

Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.(Review)

Social Theory and Practice;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......from the discourse of justice. Liberal principles such as state neutrality and the primacy of individual rights, together with the...the virtues gave way to liberal principles calling for state neutrality and the freedom of individuals to select their ends without...

Grundrechte im Kulturkonflikt. Freiheit und Gleichheit in der...

The International Migration Review;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......typology of five different approaches to cultural conflicts: state neutrality, protection for the cultural identity of national majorities...rather than noninterference. Thirdly, Kalin shows that state neutrality is a useless or even misleading idea in multipolar conflicts...

Neutrality and Responsibility. (Journal Of Philosophy).(Brief Article)

The Review of Metaphysics;  March 1, 2001 ;     154 words ......should be neutral among conceptions of the good life. The article exposes an important tension between the principle of state neutrality, on its most widely accepted formulation, and strongly egalitarian conceptions of social justice. It argues that overcoming...

Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  April 1, 1997 ;     165 words ...Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, by K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann. This volume consists of three essays, two lengthy ones by the listed authors and...

NIEBUHR'S REALISM AND THE MESS IN IRAQ

Roanoke Times & World News;  April 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ......nevertheless not to fail there, Niebuhr's case for realistic political morality is worth recalling. Against cynics who reduce everything...Moral Rationale from the beginning. Be that as it may, political morality remains political. It is about power and its uses. It...

Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  July 1, 1997 ;     95 words ...Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire, by Frederick Whelan. After almost two centuries of commentary on Burke, Whelan has done the nigh impossiblefinding...

(book reviews)

American Political Science Review;  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......of these contains essays in which Raz attempts to defend the approach to political morality he adopted in The Morality of Freedom (1986) - that political morality is concerned primarily with protecting and promoting the well-being of...

Now if Boris had said: Yes, I did it

The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......and that this, presumably, for them, was an issue of "political morality", that is, public trust. Apparently the Tory leader did...pyramid of feeble talk. Besides, it is hardly a breach of political morality for a politician to equivocate and dissemble to the press...

Public morality, public reason.

First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......essentially secularist liberal ideas about personal and political morality. The contest manifests itself in disputes over abortion...destiny. Inasmuch as Habermas and Rawls propose theories of political morality that purport to prescind from such basic questions, there...

Congress mobilising support of jailbirds: CPI-M

The Hindustan Times;  July 17, 2008 ;     245 words ......for sustaining their government" and questioned their "political morality". "It is reported that some of the Lok Sabha members who...right to attend parliament and vote there is a question of political morality involved. "The Congress leadership will be seen by the...

Introduction: reconstructing liberalism.

William and Mary Law Review;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......certain facile assumptions about the priority of individual autonomy, the nature of rationality, and the possibility of state neutrality, and replacing them with a rich and provocative literature that affirmatively defends liberal values and celebrates liberal...