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"This collection of essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts, and their implications for the scope of morality in politics and international relations. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between empirical and normative definitions of ""freedom"", ""power"" and ""interests"", whether governments are free to act against the national interest, and whether they can ever be morally obliged to do so."

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Author:   I. Carter ,  M. Ricciardi
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.475kg
ISBN:  

9780333763322

ISBN 10:   0333763327
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   13 March 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors Introduction: I.Carter & M.Ricciardi PART I: NORMATIVE ANALYSIS AND POLITICAL CONCEPTS Felix Oppenheim's Deontics; P.D.Lucia From Hobbes to Oppenheim: Conceptual Reconstruction as Political Engagement; T.Ball Essential Contestability and the Claims of Analysis; M.Ricciardi Freedom and Bivalence; H.Steiner Dimensions of Nomic Freedom; A.G.Conte 'Ought' implies 'Practical Possibility'; I.Carter Clarifying the Science Wars: The Concept of Scientific Authority; M.R.Weaver PART II: POLITICAL MORALITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS On Public Moral Appeal and Identification; J.B.Elshtain 'Anarchical Fallacies': Bentham's Attack on Human Rights; H.A.Bedau Preempting Humanitarian Interventions; T.Pogge Oppenheim's Realism and the Morality of the National Interest;; L.Bonanate Oppenheim and the National Interest; G.Kateb PART III: CODA Oppenheim in Italy: a Memoir; N.Bobbio Afterthoughts; F.E.Oppenheim Bibliography of the Publications of Felix E.Oppenheim Index

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IAN CARTER is Research Fellow of International Relations at the University of Turin, Italy. He has written on the concepts of freedom and equality and is the author of Ethics and International Relations (1995). - MARIO RICCIARDI is Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the `C. Cattaneo' University, Castellanza. He has written on collective rights, the philosophy of action and causation in the criminal law.

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