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Virtue Ethics and The Quest for Character

Revolutionary Left Radio

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The Relationship Between Virtue Ethics and Political Struggle

In politics personal development and individual virtues get kind of treated as irrelevant especially in comparison to outward collective political struggle. What is the connection between virtue ethics and political struggle particularly on the left? There are fundamentally three ways that i think that emerge from the book of looking at relationship between ethics and politics one is the socratic view so saccata is basically says to alcipari if you're not virtuous if you don't work on your virtue you really should stay away from politics. The exact opposite of that position is discussed later on in the uh in in the book and it's what today is called rail politic or machiavellianism right so political realism.

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