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Article: Civility and Its Discontents: Civic Virtue, Toleration, and Cultural Fragmentation.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Civility and Its Discontents: Civic Virtue, Toleration, and Cultural Fragmentation. Edited by Christine T. Sistare. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004; pp. vii + 310. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
Christine Sistare's Civility and Its Discontents features a collection of essays on civic virtue and tolerance in modern democracies. While Sistare wonders if the subject matter is "quaintly inapt" (vii) in a post-9/11 world, Civility and Its Discontents offers provocative articles exploring respect in public discourse and displaying a genuine desire to foster understanding of conflicting viewpoints in the public sphere. The book's essays address the significance ...
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Article: Pluralism and civic virtue.(Report)
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...Human Virtue and Civic Virtue Human virtue is one thing, civic virtue another. Human virtue is desirable for its own ... time, place, or circumstances. By contrast, civic virtue is valued instrumentally, for its contribution ...
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