The Ethics of Citizenship in the 21st Century [electronic resource] /
Thunder, David.editor.
This collection of essays offers thoughtful discussions of major challenges confronting the theory and practice of citizenship in a globalized, socially fragmented, and multicultural world. The traditional concept of citizenship as a shared ethnic, religious, and/or cultural identity has limited relevance in a multicultural world, and even the connection between citizenship and national belonging has been put in jeopardy by increasing levels of international migration and mobility, not to mention the pervasive influence of a global economy and mass media, whose symbols and values cut across national boundaries. Issues addressed include the ethical and practical value of patriotism in a globalized world, the standing of conscience claims in a morally diverse society, the problem of citizen complicity in national and global injustice, and the prospects for a principled acceptance by practising Muslims of a liberal constitutional order. In spite of the impressive diversity of philosophical traditions represented in this collection, including liberalism, pragmatism, Confucianism, Platonism, Thomism, and Islam, all of the volume's contributors would agree that the crisis of modern citizenship is a crisis of the ethical values that give shape, form, and meaning to modern social life. This is one of the few edited volumes of its kind to combine penetrating ethical discussion with an impressive breadth of philosophical traditions and approaches. .
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Preface -- THEORIZING THE PRACTICE OF CITIZENSHIP -- 1. What is the Use of an Ethical Theory of Citizenship?; David Thunder -- 2. Varieties of Citizenship and the Moral Foundations of Politics; William English -- CITIZENSHIP AND ATTACHMENT -- 3. Civic Motivation and Globalization: What is it Like to be a Good Citizen Today?; Simon Keller -- 4. The Affective Dimension of Citizenship: A Platonic Account; Emma Cohen de Lara -- CITIZENSHIP AND CONSCIENCE -- 7. Conscientious Citizenship: Arendt and Aquinas on Conscience and Politics; Angela C. Miceli -- 8. An Ethical Defense of Citizenship; David Thunder -- THE ETHICS OF CITIZENSHIP IN A MULTI-CULTURAL SOCIETY -- 5. Confucian Citizenship of Shared Virtue; David Elstein -- 6. From Social Practices to Reflective Agency: A Postsecular Ethics of Citizenship; Paolo Monti -- 7. Liberal Citizenship and the Search for an Overlapping Consensus: The Case of Muslim Minorities; Andrew F. March -- Bibliography.
This collection of essays offers thoughtful discussions of major challenges confronting the theory and practice of citizenship in a globalized, socially fragmented, and multicultural world. The traditional concept of citizenship as a shared ethnic, religious, and/or cultural identity has limited relevance in a multicultural world, and even the connection between citizenship and national belonging has been put in jeopardy by increasing levels of international migration and mobility, not to mention the pervasive influence of a global economy and mass media, whose symbols and values cut across national boundaries. Issues addressed include the ethical and practical value of patriotism in a globalized world, the standing of conscience claims in a morally diverse society, the problem of citizen complicity in national and global injustice, and the prospects for a principled acceptance by practising Muslims of a liberal constitutional order. In spite of the impressive diversity of philosophical traditions represented in this collection, including liberalism, pragmatism, Confucianism, Platonism, Thomism, and Islam, all of the volume's contributors would agree that the crisis of modern citizenship is a crisis of the ethical values that give shape, form, and meaning to modern social life. This is one of the few edited volumes of its kind to combine penetrating ethical discussion with an impressive breadth of philosophical traditions and approaches. .
Political science
Political theory.
Political Philosophy.
Political Theory.
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.