Political Ethics and Public Office

by Dennis F. Thompson

Book Overview

Are public officials morally justified in threatening violence, engaging in deception, or forcing citizens to act for their own good? Can individual officials be held morally accountable for the wrongs that governments commit? Dennis Thompson addresses these questions by developing a conception of political ethics that respects the demands of both morality and politics. He criticizes conventional conceptions for failing to appreciate the difference...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674686063
• ISBN13: 9780674686069
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"

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