1st Edition
Virtues in the Public Sphere Citizenship, Civic Friendship and Duty
Contributors
Foreword: Lord James O’Shaughnessy
Introduction: James Arthur
Section 1 Virtues and Vices in the Public Sphere
Chapter 1: Virtue against sovereignty – John Milbank
Chapter 2: Reducing Arrogance in Public Debate – Alessandra Tanesini
Chapter 3: Moral Education, Skills of Civility, and Virtue in the Public Sphere – Jonathan Jacobs
Chapter 4: Vice, Public Good, and Personal Misery – Jonny Robinson
Chapter 5: Patience, Temperance, and Politics – Kathryn Phillips
Section 2 Civic Friendship and Virtue
Chapter 6: Is There a Plausible Moral Psychology for Civic Friendship? – Blaine J. Fowers
Chapter 7: Populism and the Fate of Civic Friendship – Randall Curren
Chapter 8: Education for Living Together in a Diverse UK: A Role for Civic Friendship, Concord and Deliberation? – Andrew Peterson
Chapter 9: Resilience and Hope as a Democratic Civic Virtue – Nancy E. Snow
Chapter 10: Trust as a Public Virtue – Warren J. von Eschenbach
Chapter 11: Virtue, Education, and Political Leadership in Plato’s Laws – Mark Jonas
Chapter 12: Rethinking Self-interest and the Public Good – Mary Elliot and Jeffery S. Dill
Chapter 13: Fostering Purpose as a Way of Cultivating Civic Friendship – Kendall Cotton Bronk and Rachel Baumsteiger
Section 3 Perspectives on Virtue and the Public Sphere
Chapter 14: Responding to Discord: Why Public Reason is not Enough – John Haldane
Chapter 15: Designing for Dialogue: Developing Virtue Through Public Discourse – Harry H. Jones IV
Chapter 16: Virtù revisited – Edward Skidelsky
Chapter 17: Democratic change and ‘the referendum effect’ in the UK: reasserting the good of political participation – Joseph Ward
Concluding Remarks: James Arthur
Biography
James Arthur is Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor and Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham.
