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Justice, Virtue, and Power in Democratic Conflict
Journal of Religious Ethics, 2020AbstractThe question of how to respond to the deep political divides in the United States today has resulted in the emergence of two camps. On one side are those who argue that the cultivation of civic virtues like civility will lead to more respectful interpersonal relationships through which consensus and mutual understanding can be built.
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How actual are democratic virtues?
Futures, 1998Summary: In 1990 approximately two-thirds of countries in the world did not have democratic regimes, according to Huntington. The obstacles to and forces for democratisation in these countries he divides into three categories: political, cultural, and economic. He gives no importance to technology. The anonimity of MUDs offers to some people the chance
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From Civic Virtues to Democratic Habits
2019This chapter endeavors to prove the relevance of the wide view of democracy by comparing the philosophical grammar of democratic habits with the most promising contemporary attempt at revivifying the personal dimension of politics, which is the republican theory of civic virtues.
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Virtue Epistemology and the Democratic Life
2017Integrating insights from the Ancient Greeks (e.g. concerning virtue, eudaimonia, and the original meaning of “democracy”), John Dewey, and recent work in virtue epistemology, this chapter develops a virtue-based defense of democracy, one that conceives of democracy as an inquiry-based mode of social existence. This account of democracy is developed by
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Aquinas and the Democratic Virtues: An Introduction
Journal of Religious Ethics, 2016AbstractCan the theology of Thomas Aquinas serve as a resource for reflection on democratic civic virtue? That is the central question taken up by Mark Jordan, Adam Eitel, John Bowlin, and Michael Lamb in this focus issue. The four authors agree on one thing: Aquinas himself was no fan of democracy. They disagree, though, over whether Aquinas can offer
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Citizens' Political Prudence as a Democratic Virtue
Metaphilosophy, 2018AbstractThis essay aims to vindicate the importance of a theory of ordinary citizens' political prudence in a democratic society. It follows a reconstructive method, by looking at the full range of powers and decisions that are enabled by democratic rights in order to show that in contemporary democracies there is room for the exercise of political ...
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Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Democratization of Moral Virtue
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2019AbstractThis paper examines Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s moral philosophy, focusing on her accounts of virtuous conduct, conscience, obligation, and moral character. I argue that Cockburn’s account of virtue has two interlocking parts: a view of what virtue requires of us, and a view of how we come to see this requirement as authoritative. I then argue
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Deliberative Teaching: Effects on Students’ Democratic Virtues
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014Since the early-2000s, deliberative democratic theory has influenced the debate on teaching. Proponents of deliberation in education have argued that deliberative communication as a teaching model enhances both subject knowledge and democratic virtues among students. However, empirical support for this assumption is weak.
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Aquinas and the Virtues of Hope: Theological and Democratic
Journal of Religious Ethics, 2016AbstractA prominent political historian has recently identified unwarranted optimism and unwarranted pessimism as democracy's “dual dangers.” While this historical analysis highlights the difficulties that accompany democratic hope, our prevailing conceptual vocabulary obscures the resources needed to address them.
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