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This paper examines how shifts in moral philosophy between America’s founding and the mid-twentieth century fundamentally altered the way political scientists understood the relationship between political culture and democracy. From America’s founding, students of politics were grounded in the moral philosophy of natural law and virtue ethics, which posited an objective morality that could be discovered by the empirical and introspective study of human beings. This moral philosophy, in turn, supported the dominant paradigm of democratic political culture, which might be labeled the “Virtuous Republic Thesis” (VRT). It held that in order to establish and maintain a successful republic, it was necessary that the citizenry possess a greater degree of intellectual and moral virtue, both public and private. While consensus among national political elites concerning the VRT weakened in the period of the early republic, the idea remained dominant among academics and the citizenry at least up to the Civil War. However, by the early 1960s, this paradigm had been abandoned in the subfield of comparative politics. It was replaced by a subjective understanding of morality, which dropped the concept of virtue in studying political culture, exchanging it with the ideas of social “values” and “orientations.” This shift, in turn, was driven by changes in moral philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century; primarily emotivist theories of ethics that associated morality with subjective sentiments. The paper analyzes the implications of this evolution by examining some problems that plague contemporary democracies. |
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| Barracca, Steven. "From Virtue to Values: Shifts in Moral Philosophy and its Impact on Political Culture Studies" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA, Jan 07, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-11-04 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p283396_index.html> |
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| Barracca, S. A. , 2009-01-07 "From Virtue to Values: Shifts in Moral Philosophy and its Impact on Political Culture Studies" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Hotel Intercontinental, New Orleans, LA Online <PDF>. 2009-11-04 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p283396_index.html |
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Abstract: This paper examines how shifts in moral philosophy between America’s founding and the mid-twentieth century fundamentally altered the way political scientists understood the relationship between political culture and democracy. From America’s founding, students of politics were grounded in the moral philosophy of natural law and virtue ethics, which posited an objective morality that could be discovered by the empirical and introspective study of human beings. This moral philosophy, in turn, supported the dominant paradigm of democratic political culture, which might be labeled the “Virtuous Republic Thesis” (VRT). It held that in order to establish and maintain a successful republic, it was necessary that the citizenry possess a greater degree of intellectual and moral virtue, both public and private. While consensus among national political elites concerning the VRT weakened in the period of the early republic, the idea remained dominant among academics and the citizenry at least up to the Civil War. However, by the early 1960s, this paradigm had been abandoned in the subfield of comparative politics. It was replaced by a subjective understanding of morality, which dropped the concept of virtue in studying political culture, exchanging it with the ideas of social “values” and “orientations.” This shift, in turn, was driven by changes in moral philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century; primarily emotivist theories of ethics that associated morality with subjective sentiments. The paper analyzes the implications of this evolution by examining some problems that plague contemporary democracies. |
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| From Virtue to Values: Shifts in Moral Philosophy and its Impact on Political Culture Studies A paper proposal for the 2009 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association Steve Barracca Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Government Eastern Kentucky University steve.barracca@edu.edu This paper examines how shifts in moral philosophy between America’s founding and the mid-twentieth century fundamentally altered the way political scientists understood the relationship between political culture and democracy. From the founding students of politics were grounded in the |
| political elites concerning the VRT weakened in the period of the early republic the idea remained dominant among academics and the citizenry at least up to the Civil War. However by the early 1960s this paradigm had been abandoned in the subfield of comparative politics. It was replaced by a subjective understanding of morality which dropped the concept of virtue in studying political culture exchanging it with the ideas of social “values” and “orientations.” This shift in turn was |
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