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Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. This book argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do.

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Illustrates ways in which actions can in fact be understood as public or private. This book discusses Diogenes the Cynic, who flouted conventions about what should be public and what should be private by, among other things, masturbating in the Athenian marketplace.

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Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world in which we live could, eventually, be made to make sense to us. In A World without Why, Raymond

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Brings together some works by creative philosophers. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political philosophy, this book presents essays bound by a shared skepticism about a particular way of thinking about what is important in human life. It explores various human phenomena - including poetry, art, and religion.

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In politics, utopian's do not have a monopoly on imagination. The author argues that even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, require imaginative acts of some kind. He explores the role of imagination in politics, particularly how imaginative constructs interact with political reality.

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Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. This book argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do.

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Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. This title ranges over such topics as the concepts of intelligibility, authority, democracy, and criticism; the place of theology in ethics; tragedy and comedy; and the struggle between realism and our search for meaning.