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Politics and Prioritization of Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Bat-Ami Bar On
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Abstract

In this essay I question an assumption of Card's, which seems to place the (Kantian-style) ethical in a directive relationship with respect to the political. I call attention to the rupture between the two as a marker of modernity and suggest that the political is not only a sphere of power but also a value-sedimented field, with the values in question developing historically as in the case of liberal democracy.

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Symposium
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Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , Fall 2004 , pp. 194 - 198
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Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.

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