Original scientific paper

Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil

Derek Edyvane ; School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Abstract

The author explains the main categories and arguments introduced in his forthcoming book Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil: Political Ethics in Uncertain Times. He offers a dualist account of public morality, contrasting aspirational with preventive politics and suggesting that the latter is often not given enough weight in contemporary political theory. He continues with introducing the idea of sovereignty of evil and clarifying its role in constituting preventive civic virtues. The author concludes by arguing that making sense of practices of civic virtue in conditions of conflict and insecurity should be in terms of the preventive austerity ethic.

Keywords

preventive politics; evil; civic virtues; conflict; austerity

Hrčak ID:

99801

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/99801

Publication date:

5.3.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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