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Javna etika suvereniteta zla i politički liberalizam
The Public Ethics of Sovereignty of Evil and Political Liberalism

Author(s): Elvio Baccarini
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Hrvatsko politološko društvo
Keywords: Edyvane; liberalism; proceduralism; Rawls;

Summary/Abstract: The paper debates the issue of the preventive procedural concept of politics versus the aspirational liberal concept of politics as discussed in Derek Edyvane’s book Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil: Political Ethics in Uncertain Times. The author indicates the necessity to conceptually differentiate sovereign evils from universal evils, and offers a defense of the liberal concept of justice.*

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 99-110
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English
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