Errors in Politics: An analysis of the concept of political error
Although political errors are likely to be as old as politics itself, it is only in modern times – and I will suggest that it is only with Machiavelli – that the notion of political error clearly emerged on the background of other kinds of errors with which it has long been mingled. In an article entitled Morality and the social sciences, Albert Hirschman analysed the connection between morality and politics. He shows that there is a durable tension between the two. He writes: “modern political science owes a great deal to Machiavelli’s shocking claim that ordinary notions of moral behaviour f... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Vol 15, Iss 2, p A10 (2020) |
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The University of Akureyri
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Schlagwörter: | aristotle / hollande / machiavelli / politics / affect / emotions / error / morality / rationality / Social sciences (General) / H1-99 / Human ecology. Anthropogeography / GF1-900 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.33112/nm.15.2.11 |