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Article: Civic virtue and Socratic virtue.
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- Polity
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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Many contemporary observers believe that liberal states need to encourage the virtues of citizenship as a corrective to calculative individualism. Yet others fear that any such effort will jeopardize autonomy and diversity. A fuller understanding of Plato's account of the character, importance, and deficiencies of civic virtue provides the best starting point for our own reflections on civic virtue. A dramatic reading of The Republic elucidates Plato's account of the differences between civic and philosophic virtue by focusing on what prevents Glaucon from understanding and accepting Socrates' teaching about justice. Because Glaucon regards justice as altogether selfless ...
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