Virtues in the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Civic Friendship and Duty

ISBN-13: 9780367582524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 260 str.

James Arthur

Opis

Virtues in the Public Sphere features seventeen essays by experts from a variety of different perspectives on the broad theme of virtue in the public sphere.

Spis treści

Contributors

Foreword: Lord James O’Shaughnessy

Introduction: James Arthur

Section 1 Virtues and Vices in the Public Sphere

Chapter 1: Virtue against sovereignty – John Milbank

Chapter 2: Reducing Arrogance in Public Debate – Alessandra Tanesini

Chapter 3: Moral Education, Skills of Civility, and Virtue in the Public Sphere – Jonathan Jacobs

Chapter 4: Vice, Public Good, and Personal Misery – Jonny Robinson

Chapter 5: Patience, Temperance, and Politics – Kathryn Phillips

Section 2 Civic Friendship and Virtue

Chapter 6: Is There a Plausible Moral Psychology for Civic Friendship? – Blaine J. Fowers

Chapter 7: Populism and the Fate of Civic Friendship – Randall Curren

Chapter 8: Education for Living Together in a Diverse UK: A Role for Civic Friendship, Concord and Deliberation? – Andrew Peterson

Chapter 9: Resilience and Hope as a Democratic Civic Virtue – Nancy E. Snow

Chapter 10: Trust as a Public Virtue – Warren J. von Eschenbach

Chapter 11: Virtue, Education, and Political Leadership in Plato’s Laws – Mark Jonas

Chapter 12: Rethinking Self-interest and the Public Good – Mary Elliot and Jeffery S. Dill

Chapter 13: Fostering Purpose as a Way of Cultivating Civic Friendship – Kendall Cotton Bronk and Rachel Baumsteiger

Section 3 Perspectives on Virtue and the Public Sphere

Chapter 14: Responding to Discord: Why Public Reason is not Enough – John Haldane

Chapter 15: Designing for Dialogue: Developing Virtue Through Public Discourse – Harry H. Jones IV

Chapter 16: Virtù revisited – Edward Skidelsky

Chapter 17: Democratic change and ‘the referendum effect’ in the UK: reasserting the good of political participation – Joseph Ward

Concluding Remarks: James Arthur

O autorze

James Arthur is Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor and Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham.