Dirty Hands and Suffering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10830231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Demetris Tillyris (0000-0002-7197-7850, Canterbury Christ Church University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 160 |
| Pages | 95-121 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0495-4548 • E-ISSN: 2171-679X |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/th.2019.6616006 |
| OpenAlex | W2971608424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Contra the prevalent way of thinking about the dirty-hands problem, this article suggests that dirty hands need not necessarily entail suffering and that a politician who does not suffer for his dirty-handed acts should not be cast as a bad politician. In so doing, the article: (i) argues that the connection between DH and suffering is unsatisfactorily totalising and rests on a contentious conception of conflict as a dysfunction and (ii) develops an alternative account of the good dirty-handed politician, which is associated with what proponents of the prevalent view of the problem find impossible: calm acceptance of – even indulgence in – one’s dirt. This recognition has important implications for our contemporary culture of contrition and for the way we evaluate the characters of our politicians
Aesthetics · Dirt · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Indulgence · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |