Senses of Humor as Political Virtues

2018 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Phillip Deen
Keyword(s):  
Political Virtues

Missionary Preaching

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rex Galindo
Keyword(s):  
Spanish America ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
Political Virtues ◽  
Eternal Salvation

This chapter focuses on the contents of sermons and pláticas preached in the Franciscan popular missions. Franciscan missionaries from the apostolic colleges of propaganda fide conducted itinerant preaching campaigns on the streets of hamlets, towns, haciendas, and cities throughout Spain and Spanish America. They were armed with a tailored message aimed at converting sinners and ensuring their eternal salvation. In addition to their doctrinal purpose to convert nominal Catholics, written sermons and pláticas were used as textbooks for missionary training. The chapter first provides an overview of the Franciscan science of oratory—homiletics, the art of religious preaching, or ars praedicandi—before discussing the Franciscan friars' preachings about moral, social, and political virtues. It shows how missionaries viewed colonial society while also providing an idea of the intellectual background of sermon authors.

New Light on the Sedition Act of 1798: The Missing Half of the Prosecutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-614
Author(s):  
Wendell Bird
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
State Building ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
The Federalist ◽  
Sedition Act ◽  
The Common ◽  
Political Virtues ◽  
Federalist Party ◽  
Forward Looking

Federalist enforcement machinery ground out at least seventeen verifiable indictments. Fourteen were found under the Sedition Act, and three were returned under the common law … .James Morton Smith A spate of recent books, and even a smash Broadway musical (Hamilton), have celebrated the Federalist Party for state-building, active government, decisive leadership, forward-looking plans, and other political virtues. However, the rehabilitation of the Federalists cannot succeed without successfully confronting the Alien and Sedition Acts, which the Hamiltonian Federalists sponsored and which the recent books tend to speak softly about (and to which the musical does not give a song).

Without Regret: The Comprehensive Nature of Non-Domination

Politics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Maynor
Keyword(s):  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Comprehensive Doctrine ◽  
Political Virtues ◽  
Republican Liberty

In this article I examine Rawls's claim that there is no fundamental opposition between political liberalism and republicanism. I contend that Rawls's position is untenable in light of the necessary values and virtues that must accompany republican liberty as non-domination. Furthermore, I examine the ‘regret’ Rawls has toward some of the ‘political virtues’ of his approach and argue that if republicans were to have the same attitude, republican liberty as non-domination would be undermined. I conclude that republicanism is likely to be accompanied by values and virtues that affect the whole of an individual's life and therefore can be said to be a comprehensive doctrine.

scholarly journals La matriz movimientista de acción colectiva en Argentina: la experiencia del espacio militante kirchnerista

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germán J. Pérez ◽  
Ana Natalucci
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Political Virtues

RESUMEN: La asunción de Néstor Kirchner fue interpretada por algunas organizaciones sociales y piqueteras como parte de un proceso de reconstitución política. A partir de este hito, redefinieron su estrategia organizacional y de confrontación con el régimen político; se propusieron conformar frentes que pudieran reposicionar a las organizaciones y a sus dirigentes en un proceso de recreación del imaginario movimientista fuertemente enraizado en la cultura política de los sectores populares en Argentina. La propuesta de este artículo es reconstruir el espacio militante kirchnerista emergente en este contexto. Se pretende analizar su proceso de emergencia, tratando de dar cuenta de los vínculos generados entre esas experiencias y la dinámica de la movilización. Finalmente, se propone una evaluación de las virtudes políticas de una matriz movimientista en el horizonte político contemporáneo en Argentina. ABSTRACT: The assumption of Néstor Kirchner was interpreted by some social organizations and piqueteros as part of a process of political reconstruction. From this milestone, they redefined its organizational strategy and confrontation with the political regime; they also proposed forming fronts that could reposition the organizations and their leaders, in a process of re-creation of imaginary movements strongly rooted in the political culture of popular sectors in Argentina. The proposal of this article is to reconstruct the kirchnerista militant space emerging in this context. The intention is to analyse the process of emergency, trying to account for the links generated between those experiences and dynamics of mobilization. Finally, there is an assessment of the political virtues of a matrix of mobilization movements in the contemporary political horizon in Argentina.

Deleuze's Political Ethics: A Fascism of the New?

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Fred Evans
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Political Virtues ◽  
Ethics And Politics

The cosmology of Deleuze and Guattari emphasises the new. I raise the question of whether this emphasis cancels out two other political virtues, solidarity and heterogeneity, and thereby amounts to a fascism of the new. I reply that what Deleuze and Guattari say about cosmological unity and difference suggests that they can avoid this negative designation. I support this conclusion by considering their statements on ethics and politics and by translating their cosmological philosophy into the more immediate ethico-political context of the alloplastic stratum. The latter effort is abetted by elaborating the two thinkers’ use of the term ‘voice’, for example, in Deleuze's statement that Being is the ‘single and same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple … a single clamour of Being for all beings’ or in the two authors’ notion of a ‘constellation of voices’ that makes up the ‘molecular’ or ‘unconscious’ collective assemblage of enunciation. This elaboration is pertinent because political ethics is essentially which voices are heard, and which not, or at least their relative levels of audibility in the alloplastic regime. I further clarify this treatment of Deleuze and Guattari's political ethics by linking it to the idea of parrhesia, courageous speech and hearing.

scholarly journals Afinal, Quais Instituições Importam? Equilíbrios Políticos, Concentração e Dispersão de Poder e Decisões

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
André Marenco ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Political Order ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Positive Theory ◽  
Political Virtues ◽  
Veto Points

Institutions, was the answer presented by the positive theory, in the last three decades to explain the production of political equilibria. However, the following question is inevitable: Which institutional setting is most apt to produce stable political order and balance? Concentrated power based on the sovereign’s political virtues? Government divided into veto points that neutralize each other? This article revisits the literature that examines the effects produced by different institutional designs on stability and polyarchic performance, showing that there is no univocal and consensual connection between institutional configuration and generated results.

scholarly journals POLITICS AND POWER IN MALTESE PROVERBS AND IDIOMS / IL-POLITIKA U L-POTER FIL-PROVERBJI U L-IDJOMI MALTIN

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Thomas Vassallo
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
The Common ◽  
Political Virtues ◽  
And Control ◽  
Power Games

Given its centuries-old origins and the inimitable mix of Semitic and Latinized vocabulary, the Maltese language benefits from a massive repertoire of proverbs and idioms that interpret life realities from the perspective of the common folks. The scope of this paper is to decipher a number of Maltese proverbs and idioms that encompass elements of political power and control. Each selected expression is probed in terms of political theory and contextualized from a sociological and anthropological standpoint. Such an analysis provides a cornucopia of diachronic and synchronic insights on how the Maltese perceive power and manipulation, judge the elites and the privileged, assess the art of politics and treat patronage and clientelism. “The wit of one and the wisdom of many” has organically led them to affirm their conviction that power manipulation, greed and elite collegiality, distortion of political virtues and exploitation of power games to the leverage of both the disadvantaged and the privileged are universal realities. In other words, these phenomena involving power and politics exist independently of the locals’ perceptions or interpretations. Bħala lingwa millenarja b’influwenzi mill-ilsna semitiċi u Latini, il-Malti għandu repertorju għani ta’ proverbji u idjomi li jinterpretaw ir-realtajiet tal-ħajja minn għajnejn il-popolin. L-iskop ta’ din ir-riċerka huwa li janalizza għadd minn dawn il-proverbji u idjomi li jinkorporaw aspetti marbutin mal-politika, il-poter u l-kontroll tal-massa mill-elit. Kull proverbju magħżul huwa diskuss fil-qafas tat-teorija politika u kuntestwalizzat mil-lat soċjoloġiku u antropoloġiku. Din l-analiżi ssawwar riflessjonijiet dijakroniċi u sinkroniċi ta’ kif il-Maltin jaħsbuha dwar il-poter u l-manipulazzjoni tal-massa, kif jiġġudikaw l-elit u l-klassi pprivileġġjata, kif jassessjaw l-arti politika u kif jitrattaw il-patrunaġġ u l-klijentaliżmu. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0783/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

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