Christopher Woodard and I are leading a British-Academy/ Leverhulme Trust Small Grant-funded project on Civic Virtues and Vices. Our second workshop will take place in 2020.
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED
The aims of the event
We want to think about the category of civic vices, to see how they might relate to existing categories of ethical and epistemic vices, to see whether retrieving the categories of civic vices would be warranted and useful, and to try and connect these debates with ones in political philosophy and other cognate areas. Some of the broad sets of questions of the workshop include:
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED
The aims of the event
We want to think about the category of civic vices, to see how they might relate to existing categories of ethical and epistemic vices, to see whether retrieving the categories of civic vices would be warranted and useful, and to try and connect these debates with ones in political philosophy and other cognate areas. Some of the broad sets of questions of the workshop include:
- What existing traits or characteristics of citizens count as civic vices?
- How stable or fragile are these traits?\
- Are there different civic vices for citizens and for political actors - like politicians, civil servants, and others directly involved in the operation of the state?
- What is their significance for the design of political institutions or procedures?
- To what extent are civic vices ethical, or epistemic, or distinctively political?
- Are there ways of designing political institutions or procedures to make them less vulnerable to being undermined by civic vices (i.e. to make them 'vice- proof' or at least more 'vice-resistant')? If so, might these institutions and procedures be better, all things considered, than alternatives that require the absence of civic vices to function well?
- Can political systems and structures be apraised according to their tendency to fuel or promote certain vices?
