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  1. Apr 29, 2009 · Should political leaders violate the deepest constraints of morality in order to achieve great goods or avoid disasters for their communities? This question poses what has become known amongst philosophers as the problem of dirty hands.

  2. The problem of dirty hands concerns whether political leaders and those in similar positions can ever be justified in committing even gravely immoral actions when "dirtying their hands" in this way is necessary for realizing some important moral or political end, such as the preservation of a community's continued existence or the prevention of ...

  3. Oct 17, 2023 · This chapter introduces the Special Issue and offers an overview of the corpus of work on the topic since the publication of Michael Walzer’s seminal article, ‘Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands’.

  4. Mar 29, 2016 · The problem of dirty hands refers to situations where a person is asked to violate their deepest held ethical principles for the sake of some greater good. The problem of dirty hands is usually seen only as an issue for political leaders.

  5. According to one understanding of the problem of dirty hands, every case of dirty hands is an instance of moral conflict, but not every instance of moral conflict is a case of dirty hands. So, what sets the two apart?

    • Christina Nick
    • C.Nick@leeds.ac.uk
    • 2021
  6. Over the last 50 years anyone writing on the problem of dirty hands, be they sup‐ porters or critics, has needed to engage with the core claims made by Walzer in his ground‐breaking article ‘Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands’.

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  8. Mar 8, 2018 · I put moral injury in conversation with a separate but related concept, dirty hands. Focusing on Michael Walzer's framing of dirty hands and Jonathan Shay's understanding of moral injury, I argue that moral injury can be seen as part of the dirt of a political leader's dirty hands decisions. Such comparison can focus more attention on the ...