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On betrayal
Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we constantly see and hear stories of betrayal, and many people have personally experienced a destructive breach of loyalty. Avishai Margalit argues that the tension between the ubiquity of betrayal and the loosening of its hold is a sign of the strain between ethics and morality, between thick and thin human relations. On Betrayal offers a philosophical account of thick human relations--relationships with friends, family, and core communities--through their pathology, betrayal. Judgments of betrayal often shift unreliably. A whistle-blower to some is a backstabber to others; a traitor to one side is a hero to the other. Yet the notion of what it means to betray is remarkably consistent across cultures and eras. Betrayal undermines thick trust, dissolving the glue that holds our most meaningful relationships together. Recently, public attention has lingered on trust between strangers--on relations that play a central role in the globalized economy. These, according to Margalit, are guided by morality. On Betrayal is about ethics: what we owe to the people and groups that give us our sense of belonging. Margalit's clear-sighted account draws on literary, historical, and personal sources, including stories from his childhood during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Through its discussion of betrayal, it examines what our thick relationships are and should be and revives the long-discarded notion of fraternity.-- Provided by publisher
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On compromise and rotten compromises
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 limits? At what point does peace secured with compromise become unjust? Focusing attention on vitally important questions that have received surprisingly little attention, Margalit argues that we should be concerned not only with what makes a just war, but also with what kind of compromise allows for a just peace.
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The Ethics of Memory
Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns
the politics of memory. In a book that asks, \"Is there an ethics of
memory?\" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more
pressing, set of concerns. The idea he pursues is that the past,
connecting people to each other, makes possible the kinds of
\"thick\" relations we can call truly ethical. Thick relations, he
argues, are those that we have with family and friends, lovers and
neighbors, our tribe and our nation--and they are all dependent on
shared memories. But we also have \"thin\" relations with total
strangers, people with whom we have nothing in common except our
common humanity. A central idea of the ethics of memory is that
when radical evil attacks our shared humanity, we ought as human
beings to remember the victims. Margalit's work offers a philosophy
for our time, when, in the wake of overwhelming atrocities, memory
can seem more crippling than liberating, a force more for revenge
than for reconciliation. Morally powerful, deeply learned, and
elegantly written, The Ethics of Memory draws on the
resources of millennia of Western philosophy and religion to
provide us with healing ideas that will engage all of us who care
about the nature of our relations to others.
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