Liberal Citizenship and Civic Friendship  

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Scorza, Jason A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Political Theory vol. 32 no. 1 (Feb. 2004), page 85-108.
Topik: friendship; citizenship; Emerson; liberalism
Fulltext: 85PT321.pdf (127.5KB)

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Aristotle famously argues that friendship can serve as a normative model for the practice of citizenship, and this view has been widely accepted by neo-Aristotelians. Liberals, however, are quick to reject both Aristotle’s view of friendship and his view of citizenship. Does this mean that the concept of friendship is politically irrelevant for liberalism? This essay suggests, on the contrary, that the concept of friendship is far from obsolete, even for liberals. Specifically, communicative constraints derived from the norms of friendship, as interpreted by RalphWaldo Emerson, could serve to promote the modest instrumental purposes of liberal citizenship—personal freedom, social justice, and civil peace—while simultaneously allowing the practice of liberal citizenship to develop in noninstrumental directions, enriched rather than strained by the multicultural realities of most modern societies.

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