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The Serpent and the Dove

Susan Mendus

Philosophy 63 (245):331 - 343 (1988)

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‘Learning How Not to Be Good’: Machiavelli and the Standard Dirty Hands Thesis.Demetris Tillyris - 2015 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 18 (1):61-74.details ‘It is necessary to a Prince to learn how not to be good’. This quotation from Machiavelli’s The Prince has become the mantra of the standard dirty hands thesis. Despite its infamy, it features proudly in most conventional expositions of the dirty hands problem, including Michael Walzer’s original analysis. In this paper, I wish to cast a doubt as to whether the standard conception of the problem of DH—the recognition that, in certain inescapable and tragic circumstances an innocent course of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 16 citations
Tragic-remorse–the anguish of dirty hands.Stephen De Wijze - 2005 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 7 (5):453-471.details This paper outlines and defends a notion of tragic-remorse. This moral emotion properly accompanies those actions that involve unavoidable moral wrongdoing in general and dirty hands scenarios in particular. Tragic-remorse differs both phenomenologically and conceptually from regret, agent-regret and remorse. By recognising the existence of tragic-remorse, we are better able to account for our complex moral reality which at times makes it necessary for good persons to act in ways that although justified leave the agent with a moral stain and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 35 citations
The Challenge of a Moral Politics: Mendus and Coady on Politics, Integrity and ‘Dirty Hands’: Susan Mendus: Politics and Morality, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2009, 130 pp. C. A. J. Coady: Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008, 123 pp.Stephen de Wijze - 2012 - Res Publica 18 (2):189-200.details Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Tragic-Remorse–The Anguish of Dirty Hands.Stephen Wijze - 2005 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 7 (5):453-471.details This paper outlines and defends a notion of ‘tragic-remorse’. This moral emotion properly accompanies those actions that involve unavoidable moral wrongdoing in general and dirty hands scenarios in particular. Tragic-remorse differs both phenomenologically and conceptually from regret, agent-regret and remorse. By recognising the existence of tragic-remorse, we are better able to account for our complex moral reality which at times makes it necessary for good persons to act in ways that although justified leave the agent with a moral stain and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 30 citations

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