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What is the relation between moral reasons and reasons of ‘political necessity’? Does the authority of morality extend across political decision-making; or are there ‘reasons of state’ which somehow either stand outside the reach of morality or override it, justifying actions that are morally wrong?
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See Gerald F. Gaus, ‘Dirty Hands’, in R. G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman (eds.), A Companion to Applied Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 167–79.
See Terrance C. McConnell, ‘Moral Residue and Dilemmas’, in H. E. Mason (ed.), Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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Cullity, G. (2007). The Moral, the Personal and the Political. In: Primoratz, I. (eds) Politics and Morality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625341_4
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