The Public Ethics of Sovereignty of Evil and Political Liberalism
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The central distinction in Derek Edyvane’s book Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil: Political Ethics in Uncertain Times is that between aspirational politics and preventive politics. I am going to dedicate the first section of the paper to the analysis of this distinction. There are authors who say that the two politics are symmetrical. In their opinion, preventing evil is preventing the loss of good, and therefore, the two politics, in their view, can be reduced to the same one. Edyvane, on the other hand, Elvio Baccarini Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Rijeci
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