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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 228 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x151x14 mm, kaal: 350 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2016
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107642086
  • ISBN-13: 9781107642089
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 228 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x151x14 mm, kaal: 350 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2016
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107642086
  • ISBN-13: 9781107642089
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"What does citizenship have to do with living a worthy human life? Political scientists and philosophers who study the practice of citizenship, including Rawlsian liberals and Niebuhrian realists, have tended to either relegate this question to the private realm or insist that ethical principles must be silenced or seriously compromised in our deliberations as citizens. This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy not only our integrity as persons but also the legitimacy and long-term survival of our political communities. In response to this predicament, David Thunder aims to rehabilitate the ethical standpoint in political philosophy, by defending the legitimacy and importance of giving full play to our deepest ethical commitments in our civic roles and developing a set of guidelines for citizens who wish to enact their civic roles with integrity. In this way, this book provokes a lively conversation about the ethical foundations of public life in constitutional democracies"--

What does citizenship have to do with living a worthy human life? Political scientists and philosophers who study the practice of citizenship, including Rawlsian liberals and Niebuhrian realists, have tended to either relegate this question to the private realm or insist that ethical principles must be silenced or seriously compromised in our deliberations as citizens. This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy not only our integrity as persons but also the legitimacy and long-term survival of our political communities. In response to this predicament, David Thunder aims to rehabilitate the ethical standpoint in political philosophy, by defending the legitimacy and importance of giving full play to our deepest ethical commitments in our civic roles and developing a set of guidelines for citizens who wish to enact their civic roles with integrity.

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'David Thunder makes an excellent case for the wholeness of citizenship, in which the best citizen and the best person come together. His analysis is useful whether one agrees or not and is stated so agreeably that all can admire its clarity and persuasiveness.' Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University, and Hoover Institution, Stanford University 'It is commonly held by political philosophers and theologians that the ethical principles that guide one in one's attempt to live a worthy human life should not be decisive for what one does in one's role as citizen; that role, so it is said, has its own distinct principles and source of principles. David Thunder makes the most detailed and powerful case anyone has yet made against this separationist thesis and in support of the opposing integrationist thesis: that we should give our deepest ethical commitments full play in what we do as citizens. Not only does personal ethical integrity require it; liberal democracy is in danger if citizens wall off the role of citizen from the norms and values that make for a worthy human life. Citizenship and the Pursuit of the Worthy Life is the 'against the grain' book that those of us who do not buy the separationist thesis have long been looking for.' Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University, and University of Virginia 'Thunder's passionately argued, nonconsequentialist book claims that it is possible for both citizens and leaders in a constitutional democracy to practice the virtues and integrity that entail a 'worthy' life, without the ethical or moral compromises that some authors claim may be necessary in public life.' C. P. Waligorski, Choice 'Thunder's account of the role of citizenship in a worthy life is a broadly attractive on, and he defends it quite able in his penultimate chapter against six important objections to his integrationist thesis. He writes, moreover, with clarity and grace.' Richard Dagger, The Review of Politics

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This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy the legitimacy and survival of our political communities.
Preface ix
PART I CHARTING THE CONCEPTUAL TERRAIN
1 Resurrecting an Ancient Question: The Place of Citizenship in a Worthy Life
3(20)
1.1 A Neglected Question
6(7)
1.2 Explaining the Neglect
13(4)
1.3 Overview of the Argument
17(6)
2 The Concept of Ethical Integrity
23(34)
2.1 The Concept of a Worthy Life
24(3)
2.2 The Concept of Ethical Integrity
27(11)
2.3 Subjective and Objective Dimensions of Ethical Integrity
38(7)
2.4 The Virtues of Integrity
45(5)
2.5 In Defense of Integrity
50(7)
3 The Practice of Citizenship
57(28)
3.1 Preliminary Remarks
58(1)
3.2 The Constitutional Democratic Regime
59(4)
3.3 Citizenship in a Constitutional Democracy
63(15)
3.3.1 Full Membership in the Polity
65(1)
3.3.2 Political Rule
65(1)
3.3.3 Public Service
66(1)
3.3.4 Obedience to Law
66(1)
3.3.5 A Shared Understanding of Justice and the Common Good
67(3)
3.3.6 Civic Virtue
70(6)
3.3.7 Civic Loyalty
76(1)
3.3.8 Enjoyment of Constitutional Rights
77(1)
3.4 The Multifaceted Character of Citizenship
78(7)
PART II PROSPECTS FOR INTEGRITY IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE
4 A Preemptive Strike against the Separationist Thesis
85(35)
4.1 John Rawls: The Standpoint of Impartial Morality
88(8)
4.1.1 The Argument from Objectivity
91(1)
4.1.2 The Argument from Autonomy
92(2)
4.1.3 The Argument from Stability
94(2)
4.2 The Impartial Standpoint Reconsidered
96(7)
4.3 Reinhold Niebuhr: The Standpoint of Political Morality
103(7)
4.3.1 The Standpoint of Political Morality
104(3)
4.3.2 The Alleged Necessity of Ethical Compromise in the Political Arena
107(3)
4.4 The Standpoint of Political Morality Reconsidered
110(10)
5 The Integrationist Ideal of Civic Engagement
120(47)
5.1 Two Objections against the Integrationist Approach
123(17)
5.1.1 Is Ethical Integrity an Obstacle to Political Responsibility?
123(9)
5.1.2 Does Citizenship Foster Uncritical Patriotism?
132(8)
5.2 The Ethical Value and Necessity of Citizenship
140(7)
5.3 An Integrationist Model of Civic Engagement
147(20)
5.3.1 An Overview of the Assimilation Process
148(1)
5.3.1.1 Role Selection
148(1)
5.3.1.2 Role Training
149(3)
5.3.1.3 Role Evaluation
152(2)
5.3.1.4 Role Interpretation
154(1)
5.3.2 Five Guiding Principles for Selecting and Enacting Civic Roles with Integrity
154(2)
5.3.2.1 Seek Out and Imitate Virtuous Role Models
156(2)
5.3.2.2 Prioritize All-Things-Considered Judgments of Human Excellence over Role-Based Judgments
158(1)
5.3.2.3 Prioritize the Common Good of the People over the Good of the Regime
159(2)
5.3.2.4 Critically Evaluate Your Civic Allegiances in Light of Your Broader Allegiances as a Human Being
161(1)
5.3.2.5 Select and Enact Civic Roles Based on Your Individual Capacities and Character, Relational Responsibilities, and Sense of Calling
162(5)
6 Objections and Replies
167(26)
6.1 Have I Overstated the Ethical Value of Citizenship?
168(1)
6.2 Does Citizenship Excessively Restrict Individual Development?
169(3)
6.3 Does Citizenship Implicate Us in Evil?
172(4)
6.4 Does the Integrationist Approach Threaten the Integrity of Christian Communities?
176(5)
6.5 Do the Principles and Institutions of Constitutional Democracy Undermine the Social Capital Required to Sustain the Practice of Civic Virtue?
181(3)
6.6 Is the Integrationist Approach Inimical to Personal Liberty and Civic Friendship?
184(7)
Conclusion
191(2)
References 193(6)
Index 199
David Thunder has been a research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, Spain, since September 2012. Prior to moving to Spain, Thunder served as a visiting assistant professor at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, in addition to completing two years of postdoctoral research - one year at the Witherspoon Institute and the other in Princeton University's James Madison Program. His work has appeared in publications such as the American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, and the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.