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Schlivic Virtue and the Table-Pounding Objection

By On September 2, 2011 · 19 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Democracy

In various places I have argued that a person can exercise civic virtue without any engagement in politics whatsoever. The duties of citizenship and the goal of promoting the common good need not and for many people do not call them into the public sphere.

Many people regard this as a non-starter. Sure, as I [...]

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Civic Virtue without Politics

By On August 31, 2011 · 22 Comments · In Liberalism

I’ve read that the archaic Greeks had a narrow view of courage. They thought courage was a virtue that could only be expressed by a man in war. We’ve made moral progress since then. We now understand that courage is about an appropriate willingness to confront risk and danger. Courage can be exercised anywhere (not [...]

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