Freedom, power, and political morality : essays for Felix Oppenheim

This collection of new essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts and their implications for the scope of morality in politics and international relations. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between empirical and normative definitions of 'freedom', 'power' and 'interests', whether governments are free to act against the national interest, and whether they can ever be morally obliged to do so. Introduction / Ian Carter, Mario Ricciardi -- Normative Analysis and Political Concepts -- Felix Oppenheim's Deontics / Paolo Di Lucia -- From Hobbes to Oppenheim: Conceptual Reconstruction as Political Engagement / Terence Ball -- Essential Contestability and the Claims of Analysis / Mario Ricciardi -- Freedom and Bivalence / Hillel Steiner -- Dimensions of Nomic Freedom / Amedeo G. Conte -- 'Ought' Implies 'Practical Possibility' / Ian Carter -- Clarifying the Science Wars: the Concept of Scientific Authority / Mark R. Weaver -- Political Morality and International Relations -- On Public Moral Appeals and Identification / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 'Anarchical Fallacies': Bentham's Attack on Human Rights / Hugo Adam Bedau -- Pre-empting Humanitarian Interventions / Thomas Pogge -- Oppenheim's Realism and the Morality of the National Interest / Luigi Bonanate -- Oppenheim and the National Interest / George Kateb -- Oppenheim in Italy: a Memoir / Norberto Bobbio -- Afterthoughts / Felix E. Oppenheim. This collection of original essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts and their implications for the scope of morality in politics and international relations. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between empirical and normative definitions of "freedom", "power", and "interests", whether governments are free to act against the national interest, and whether they can ever be morally obliged to do so.
The German noun 'Deontik' (Deontics) and adjective 'deontisch' (deontic) were both invented in 1926.