2013
DOI: 10.1057/pol.2013.11
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Democratizing Responsibility: Jane Addams’s Pragmatist Ethics

Abstract: Jane Addams's approach to responsibility deserves attention from contemporary theorists, largely because it is rooted in a pragmatist understanding of democracy. As a pragmatist, Addams stresses that democracy is a "rule of living," not simply a set of political institutions. Democratically committed citizens, she argues, must share responsibility for harms arising from processes to which they are connected. They also must learn from and work with people whose experiences of these processes are different from … Show more

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