Justifications and Judgments: Walzer, Bonhoeffer, and the Problem of Dirty Hands
This essay examines how Michael Walzer and Dietrich Bonhoeffer understand practical moral dilemmas - what Walzer calls the problem of dirty hands - and how both conceive of the solution to the problem in terms of the concept of judgment. Walzer's judgment is strictly political, and tragic; Bo...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2017]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 83-99 |
RelBib Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBF Christology NCD Political ethics VA Philosophy |
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Summary: | This essay examines how Michael Walzer and Dietrich Bonhoeffer understand practical moral dilemmas - what Walzer calls the problem of dirty hands - and how both conceive of the solution to the problem in terms of the concept of judgment. Walzer's judgment is strictly political, and tragic; Bonhoeffer's retains this political account but grounds it theologically, so as to overcome its finally tragic element. |
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ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2017.0007 |