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This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice.
List of contents
Introduction.- 1. Compromise.- 1.1 What Compromises Are.- 1.2 Two Levels of Moral Evaluation.- 1.3 Consent.- 1.4 Types of Compromises.- 2. Peace.- 2.1 Peace and Modus Vivendi Arrangements.- 2.2 The Value of Peace.- 2.3 Peace and Justice.- 2.4 Peace and Non-Interference.- 3. Public Justification.- 3.1 Public Justification: The Basic Idea.- 3.2 Rawls, Stability and Public Justification.- 3.3 Respect and Public Justification.- 3.4 Community and Public Justification.- 4. Compromising for Peace and Public Justification.- 4.1 Peace and Public Justification as Second Level Values.- 4.2 The Deontic Morality of Compromising.- 4.3 Compromise and Liberal Institutions.- 4.4 Compromise and Legitimacy.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.
About the author
Fabian Wendt is a Temporary Professor of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany. He has previously been an Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona, USA.
Summary
This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice.
