Political vices
著者
書誌事項
Political vices
Oxford University Press, c2016
注記
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index
収録内容
- States of character : toward a theory of political vice
- The anti-politics of hubris : vice of sovereignty
- Accounting for moral blindness : vice of wholeness
- Political recalcitrance : vice of exceptionalism
- After vice : the call of accountability
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Historically speaking, our vices, like our virtues, have come in two basic forms: intellectual and moral. One of the main purposes of this book is to analyze a set of specifically political vices that have not been given sufficient attention within political theory but that nonetheless pose enduring challenges to the sustainability of free and equitable political relationships of various kinds. Political vices like hubris, willful blindness, and
recalcitrance are persistent dispositions of character and conduct that imperil both the functioning of democratic institutions and the trust that a diverse citizenry has in the ability of those institutions to secure a just political order of equal moral standing, reciprocal freedom, and human dignity. Political vices
embody a repudiation of the reciprocal conditions of politics and, as a consequence of this, they represent a standing challenge to the principles and values of the mixed political regime we call liberal-democracy. Mark Button shows how political vices not only carry out discrete forms of injustice but also facilitate the habituation in and indifference toward systemic forms of social and political injustice. They do so through excesses and deficiencies in human sensory and communicative
capacities relating to voice (hubris), vision (moral blindness), and listening (recalcitrance). Drawing on a wide range of intellectual resources, including ancient Greek tragedy, social psychology, moral epistemology, and democratic theory, Political Vices gives new consideration to a list of "deadly
vices" that contemporary political societies can neither ignore as a matter of personal "sin" nor publicly disregard as a matter of mere bad choice, and it provides a democratic account that outlines how citizens can best contend with our most troubling political vices without undermining core commitments to liberalism or pluralism.
目次
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: States of Character: Toward a Theory of Political Vice
- Chapter Two: The Anti-Politics of Hubris: Vice of Sovereignty
- Chapter Three: Accounting for Moral Blindness: Vice of Wholeness
- Chapter Four: Political Recalcitrance: Vice of Exceptionalism
- Chapter Five: After Vice: The Call of Accountability
- Afterword
- Notes
- References
- Index
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