Splitting the Difference: Compromise and Integrity in Ethics and Politics

by Martin Benjamin

Book Overview

Politics is often characterized as the "art of compromise"--the implication being that compromise is desirable and that insight, imagination, discipline, and skill are all necessary for a satisfactory and successful compromise. Compromise in ethics, however, is quite another matter: there, it is usually regarded as a sign of weakness or lack of integrity. From Socrates and Sir Thomas More to Gandhi, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700604553
• ISBN13: 9780700604555
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"