When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are moral limits to acceptable compromise even for peace. But just what are those limi...(展开全部)

If politics is the art of the possible, then compromise is the artistry of democracy. Unless one partisan ideology holds sway over all branches of government, compromise is necessary to govern for the benefit of all citizens. A rejection of compromise biases politics in favor of the status quo, even when the rejection risks crisis. Why then is compromise so difficult in America...(展开全部)

艾米·戈特曼（Amy Gutmann，1949—） 曾于1976—2004年担任普林斯顿大学校长，现任宾夕法尼亚大学校长，是一位杰出的政治科学教授和优秀的政治理论家。 丹尼斯·汤普森（Dennis Thompson，1940—） 哈佛政治哲学教授，在政治伦理和民主理论领域以拥有开创性研究而闻名。政治学界称他“贡献了比罗尔斯更加具体的政治思想和对真实政治世界的独到理解，从而影响了整个政治学界”。汤普森与戈特曼的合著有《为何要协商民主？》（普林斯顿大学出版社）、《民主与分歧》。

Malebranche's Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion is in many ways the best introduction to his thought, and provides the most systematic exposition of his philosophy as a whole. In it, he presents clear and comprehensive statements of his two best-known contributions to metaphysics and epistemology, namely, the doctrines of occasionalism and vision in God; he also states h...(展开全部)

a ~This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.a (TM) These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly indicate what On Law and Reason is about. It is a theory about the nature of the law which emphasises the role of reason in the law and which refuses to limit th...(展开全部)

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain – or excuse! – their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles the...(展开全部)