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Article: Is inclusion a civic virtue? Cosmopolitanism, disability, and the liberal state.(Report)
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- Social Theory and Practice
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- October 1, 2007
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Perhaps the most obvious way of linking the concepts of civic virtue and social diversity is to ask what civic virtues are appropriate to a polity characterized by social diversity. Civic virtue can seem most at home in small, homogenous republics, and, indeed, it is in thinking about the conditions for the possibility of such republics that the concept of civic virtue was first articulated. But extensive, pluralistic democracies like the United States may also require certain character excellences of their citizens if these polities are to survive and flourish. (1) What qualities of character do citizens of a multicultural, multiracial, and religiously pluralistic ...
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