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Rethinking modern citizenship: Towards a politics of integrity and virtue.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rethinking modern citizenship: Towards a politics of integrity and virtue./
Author:	Thunder, David.
Description:	332 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Michael Zuckert.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-04A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3214138
ISBN:	9780542639241

Rethinking modern citizenship: Towards a politics of integrity and virtue.
Thunder, David.

Rethinking modern citizenship: Towards a politics of integrity and virtue. - 332 p.

Adviser: Michael Zuckert.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006.

There is a malaise at large in our modern liberal democracies arising from the failure of our public life to draw sustenance from, and lend support to, our highest moral ideals and our quest for ethical integrity or wholeness. Many current ideals of citizenship expressly or implicitly require citizens to subordinate their most cherished ethical commitments to the norms of liberal citizenship. Critics have pointed out that this amounts to a deeply problematic bifurcation of the moral life. However, they have failed to develop an alternative vision of citizenship that both accommodates integrity and addresses the challenges of a modern pluralistic polity, such as toleration, respect, and political stability. This is the principal task I set myself here, drawing on the strengths of Aristotle's account of the virtues but also embracing values and practices central to the liberal tradition such as representative democracy, personal liberty, rule of law, and a free market economy.

ISBN: 9780542639241Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

Rethinking modern citizenship: Towards a politics of integrity and virtue.
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520 $a Chapter 1 is a broad introduction to and overview of the project. Chapter 2 outlines John Rawls' "political liberal" ideal of citizenship, while chapter 3 shows that the Rawlsian ideal of citizenship is not viable, since it both fails its own test of legitimacy and egregiously undermines the integrity of citizens. In Chapter 4 I develop a positive account of the virtue of integrity and address some typical liberal objections against this virtue. Chapter 5 offers a deeper and broader diagnosis of the inadequacy of political liberalism by tracing its inadequate treatment of problems confronting liberal democracy to the assumptions of twentieth century contractualist moral theory. Finally, in chapter 6 I sketch part of an aretaic or virtue-ethical account of citizenship that merges insights from virtue ethics with insights from the liberal tradition. The aretaic account claims to be both more accommodating of integrity than contractualist models, and better equipped to understand and address traditional problems confronting a liberal regime, such as respect and political stability.
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