On Duties

Cıcero, Marcus Tullius

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“…45 Civic virtue-which requires fair-minded political engagement by citizens and dedicated public service from leaders-is crucial to the stability of a free, self-governing polity because both its requirements are bulwarks against the corruption of the state. 46 Civic virtue requires both leaders and citizens to abstain from wrongful interference. Pettit's account of republicanism is not consistent with the tradition, for he must endorse the institutions-only approach.…”

Section: Virtue and Freedommentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impossibility of Republican Freedom

Simpson¹

2017

Philosophy & Public Affairs

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Section: Virtue and Freedommentioning

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The Impossibility of Republican Freedom

Simpson¹

2017

Philosophy & Public Affairs

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“…We could be firm and constant in our adherence to principles, where these principles themselves need not to be wholly rigid and inflexible in nature. On one way of understanding honesty, for example, it is not an ideal that requires us to tell the truth no matter what (Cicero 2000;Pettit 2015). Thus understood, we could in principle robustly adhere to the ideal of honesty, without therefore telling the truth in all situations, no matter whatbecause telling the truth no matter what is not what the ideal of honesty requires of us.…”

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Do we Always Act on Maxims?

Nyholm

2017

Kantian rev.

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It is commonly thought that on Kant’s view of action, ‘everyone always acts on maxims’. Call this the ‘descriptive reading’. This reading faces two important problems. First, the idea that people always act on maxims offends against common sense: it clashes with our ordinary ideas about human agency. Second, there are various passages in which Kant says that it is ‘rare’ and ‘admirable’ to firmly adhere to a set of basic principles that we adopt for ourselves. This article offers an alternative: the ‘normative reading’. On this reading, it is a normative ideal to adopt and act on maxims: it is one of the things we would do if our reason were fully in control of our decision-making.

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“…Cicero concludes, "it is the proper function of a citizenship and a city to ensure for everyone a free and unworried guardianship of his possessions". 10 McCormick's concerns about explicitly political participation also have some foundation. Take James Harrington's division of the populace into those "freemen or citizens", who "live of themselves", and "servants" who live in servitude to others.…”

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Socialist Republicanism

O'Shea

2019

Political Theory

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Socialist republicans advocate public ownership and control of the means of production in order to achieve the republican goal of a society without endemic domination. While civic republicanism is often attacked for its conservatism, the relatively neglected radical history of the tradition shows how a republican form of socialism provides powerful conceptual resources to critique capitalism for leaving workers and citizens dominated. This analysis supports a programme of public ownership and economic democracy intended to reduce domination in the workplace and wider society. I defend this socialist republicanism from both the Marxist objection that it overlooks the impersonal nature of domination under capitalism and the left-liberal objections that property-owning democracy or worker codetermination are sufficient to suppress dominating relationships. The resulting position identifies the need for more ambitious institutional grounds for republican liberty than is often supposed, while offering us a distinctive emancipatory justification for socialism.

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On Duties

Cited by 15 publications

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The Impossibility of Republican Freedom

The Impossibility of Republican Freedom

Do we Always Act on Maxims?

Socialist Republicanism

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