Morals and Politics - 9780268030650

Morals and PoliticsAuthor(s): Vittorio Hsle\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268030650, 978-0268030650\nSynopsis\nWhen Moral und Politik was first published in Germany it provoked heated debate both in and out of the classroom. It even prompted Vittorio Hsle's critics to publish a collection of essays that responded to his provocative arguments. Available for the first time in an English translation, Morals and Politics, a tour-de-force, is certain to once again cause considerable discussion.\n\n In this ambitious work Hsle attempts no less than an outline of a political ethics for the twenty-first century. He raises the question of the relationship between morals and politics but proposes a relatively complex answer to it. This answer involves a search for a synthesis between the classical, ancient European conviction that political philosophy must be based on ethics and the more modern.