Political philosophy
By: edited by Anthony O'Hear.
Contributors: O'Hear, Anthony.; Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Series: Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement -- 58.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Political science -- Philosophy
Notes: Papers originally presented as lectures at the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2004-5.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making the world safe for utilitarianism / Jonathan Wolff; title: Innocent before God: politics, morality and the case of Billy Budd / Susan Mendus; title: Democracy and openness / Anthony O'hear; title: Rights and human rights / Oswald Hanfling; title: Prerogative to depart from equality / Michael Otsuka; title: Casting the first stone: who can, and who can't, condemn the terrorists? / G. A. Cohen; title: Against egalitarianism / John Kekes; title: Big decision: opting, converting, drifting / Edna Ullmann-Margalit; title: The epistemology of unjust war / Hilary Putnam; title: High culture, low politics / Robert Grant; title: Edmund Burke and the Anglo-American tradition of liberty / João Carlos Espada; title: The politics of emotion:  liberalism and cognitivism / Susan James.