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The Civic and Moral Virtues |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE RECOVERY OF VIRTUE |
| Author: Anne M. Wiles |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 7,006 Words, 41,413 Characters |
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From one point of view, this could be called an age of morality. Moral outrage is exhibited in congressional hearings, in the appointment of special prosecutors, and in the indictment of corporate and public officials. The resulting public spectacles and castigation of these offenses have, however, a certain hollow ring. Some detect beneath the sideshow moralizing, a deep disquietude and uncertainty about moral values that accompany the demise of a culture. The consensus that underlies the laws we live by seems to be crumbling, and if that goes, the moral and social values based on it will not long survive. In troubled times, we need to look to the wellspring of the civic order to determine its sources in human nature and in an inherited wisdom built upon centuries of accurate observa...
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...formation of good moral habits in its citizens is of the greatest benefit to a society. It creates and maintains a social structure in which the civic and moral virtues coincide and in which there is a good possibility for a moral consensus. Moreover, since the intellectual virtues depend upon the moral virtues, this education is both incidentally and of itself education for the good life.
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