Philosophy As Diplomacy: Essays in Ethics and Policy-Making

Professor A. P. Iannone develops the novel conception of philosophy as diplomacy, with two main objectives in view. The first is to help integrate the languages, concepts, and methods of ethics and sociopolitical philosophy with those of political science, sociology and social psychology, technology, institutions, business studies, and the policy-making community in a manner that is reasonably accessible to the general public. The second is to outline an approach for dealing with a wide range of current policy-making problems in a politically sound and morally sensitive manner.This approach combines attention to rights, consequences, and pragmatic considerations, and is thus free from the shortcomings of simplistic theories that focus only on consequences, or merely on rights or obligations, and, in turn, disregard the constraints of time, resources, and political pressures on policy making. Read more