This essay aims to vindicate the importance of a theory of ordinary citizens' political prudence in a democratic society. It follows a reconstructive method, by looking at the full range of powers and decisions that are enabled by democratic rights in order to show that in contemporary democracies there is room for the exercise of political prudence by ordinary citizens. By the same method, it also reconstructs the main traits and manifestations of citizens' political prudence in the everyday politics of our democracies. Theorizing citizens political prudence is important for detecting and correcting the ways in which the citizens of a democratic society, as well as its institutions, may fail to fulfill the mandates of such an essential political virtue.
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Titolo: | Citizens' Political Prudence as a Democratic Virtue | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2018 | |
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Abstract: | This essay aims to vindicate the importance of a theory of ordinary citizens' political prudence in a democratic society. It follows a reconstructive method, by looking at the full range of powers and decisions that are enabled by democratic rights in order to show that in contemporary democracies there is room for the exercise of political prudence by ordinary citizens. By the same method, it also reconstructs the main traits and manifestations of citizens' political prudence in the everyday politics of our democracies. Theorizing citizens political prudence is important for detecting and correcting the ways in which the citizens of a democratic society, as well as its institutions, may fail to fulfill the mandates of such an essential political virtue. | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11567/895314 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 01.01 - Articolo su rivista |