Sentences with phrase «political virtue»

The chief political virtue of cap - and - trade — a hugely complex scheme to reduce greenhouse gases — is its very complexity.

Historically, justice has been considered the primary political virtue.

Its endurance presupposes a distinct set of political virtues in its citizens.

[Joan C. Williams] Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper - middle class act is with food that is fresh and local... The class code of the upper - middle class literally links morality and political virtue with certain forms of high - intensity food - preparation activities.

This redefinition of true citizenship is of particular significance at the present time when «citizenship» is almost universally regarded as a purely political virtue.

The «political virtue par excellence» was therefore courage, as to enter the Greek polis a man left behind his concerns about his own life, his personal matters.

I simply think it might provide a moment's healthy respite from the tumultuous urgency and banality of this or any electoral cycle because, in its general and fabulous way, it encourages perseverance in hope and political virtue simply by reminding one that there are eternal harmonies that can not be silenced by the din of contending interests, and that one is best able to act «politically» in good conscience when one preserves a proper sense of proportion.

Individual freedom — for Reagan, the central political virtue — rests on and makes possible industry and initiative, the economic virtues of a self - reliant and self - disciplined character.

The South Shore of Staten Island often seems like a parallel universe to the rest of New York City, a place where all the usual political virtues are sins and Republicans rule everything instead of Democrats.

But the great political virtue of school choice is that it generates its own constituents who can then be mobilized to protect and expand choice.

The objective is to befuddle minds into jumbling carbon dioxide together with soot and toxic gases, which are then cleansed with political virtue instead of engineering.

But these may all be smaller pieces of what I believe is the big advice ed reformers need to hear — there is political virtue in pursuing choice as a reform strategy over top - down reforms, including standards, accountability, curriculum, and pedagogy.

Sanders appears to understand the political virtue of courage when he pushes Rebecca to have the «guts» stand up for what will truly distinguish her from current politicians.

Each such community pursues its vision of the political virtues of «justice and the common good».

«Catholicism has traditionally taught that prudence is the most important of political virtues.

The political virtues of «good customs and habits,» explains Tinder, «need a spiritual base; and if it is lacking, they will gradually... disappear.»

He says very little directly about civic or political virtues, since the real advancements in a free society are made by private citizens rather than public representatives.

His research, fully funded by a Department of Politics Studentship and more recently, as Senior Hulme Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, examines the evolution of classical virtues to concepts of modern political virtue, as well as the relationship between political virtues and liberal political practices such as freedom of speech, public debate, toleration, and notions of civility.

Her current research interest is in studying «what politics ought to be» and «political virtue» by way of critical study of the thought of figures including Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and also Rousseau and Wollstonecraft.

Commercial society created a set of incentives and fostered values that encouraged individualism and materialism, which made wealth rather than political virtue a main good to be sought.

Their republican style of political virtue, he concluded, turned on a proper understanding of interest.