PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Christian Fundamentalism, Chauvinism, Seedbed

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILO-120
• Professor: price

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So even if we reject aristotelian republicanism, any plausible political theory must stall have an instrumental concern for civic virtues. One approach would be to try to impose a legal duty on people to exhibit these virtues. Unfortunately, this faith in the educative unction of participation seems overly optimistic. Emphasizing participation does not yet explain who to ensure that citizen participate responsibly. Merely compelling political participation is unlikely o be a satisfactory solution to the problem of ciciv virtues. Instead, most scholars woking on this topic have assumed that civic virtue must be promoted indirectly. Rather than have a state-imposed city of participation or civic virtue, the approach has been to try to locate and strengthen the seedbeds of civic virtue. There are a variety of aspects of liberal society that can be seen as inculcating civic virtues, including: 1. The market: theorists of the new right often praise the market as a school of civic virtue.