Civic virtues in the era of post-truths

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 145-168
Author(s):  
Beong Wan Chu
Keyword(s):  
Civic Virtues

Family Ties and Civic Virtues: A Comparison between the East and the West

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Tee Gan ◽  
Eduard J. Bomhoff ◽  
Grace H.Y. Lee
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Civic Virtues

The First Calvinist Encounters with New World Religions

2021 ◽  
pp. 252-269
Author(s):  
Mark Valeri
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
New World ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Jean De Lery ◽  
Travel Writings ◽  
Civic Virtues ◽  
Cultural Observation

European Calvinists first encountered Native Americans during three brief expeditions of French adventurers to Brazil and Florida during the mid-sixteenth century. Although short-lived and rarely noted, these expeditions produced a remarkable commentary by Huguenots on the Tupinamba people of Brazil and the Timucuan people of Florida. Informed by Calvinist understandings of human nature and humanist approaches to cultural observation, authors such as Jean de Léry produced narratives that posed European and Christian decadence against the sociability and honesty of Native Americans. They used their experiences in America to suggest that Huguenots in France, like indigenous people in America, ought to be tolerated for their civic virtues whatever their doctrinal allegiances. Huguenot travel writings indicate variations in Calvinist approaches to Native peoples from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries.

Power, Exile, and Religion in the Roman Empire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren R. Niehoff
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Jerusalem Temple ◽  
Civic Virtues

This chapter examines how Philo emerged as a central author in the discourse on power, exile, and religion in first-century Rome. Highly aware of the tyrannical features of Claudius's rule, he develops a sophisticated language of projecting criticism onto Claudius's predecessor Gaius. Like his contemporary Seneca, Philo connects the loss of power—namely, exile—with philosophy, suggesting that it is a space for reasserting and refashioning one's identity. Close parallels appear between the Roman version of exile, exemplified by Flaccus, and the Jewish version of exile, exemplified by the Alexandrian Jews during the pogrom in their city. Within this distinctly Roman context, Philo develops a fascinating new notion of Judaism, which he defines by nobility of mind, the Jerusalem Temple, urbanity, and civic virtues. This dramatic refashioning of Judaism has significant implications for early Christianity and subsequent Greek authors in the Roman Empire.

scholarly journals Re-thinking the Practice of Teaching Literature to Enhance EFL Students’ Civic Skills: An Algerian Perspective

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed KHELADI
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Negotiation Of Meaning ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Civic Skills ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Civic Virtues ◽  
Constructive Criticism

Besides the undisputable role of literature in teaching civic virtues through exposing students to characters and themes that accurately exemplify and truly represent civility, teaching literature can serve a means to inculcate in students various civic skills, such as conflict resolution, leadership, negotiation of meaning and constructive criticism. Yet, to attain such skills, teachers need to reshape their teaching practices to be in conformity with the principles of modern education that champion active learning methodologies. The present paper argues for the necessity of rethinking the traditional teacher-centered methods in teaching English literature in the Algerian context as they tend to reduce students’ active participatory roles in learning. In response to this, a number of suggestions have accordingly been put forward to enable students reach more independency in dealing with literature. This orientation of thought stems from the belief that active learning is conducive to active citizenship.

7. Citizenship Theory

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Kymlicka
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Civic Virtue ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Liberal Society ◽  
Classical View ◽  
Civic Republicanism ◽  
The Family ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
Civic Virtues

This chapter examines theories of citizenship as an important supplement to, rather than a replacement for, theories of justice. It first considers what sorts of virtues and practices are said to be required by democratic citizenship, focusing on two different forms of civic republicanism: a classical view which emphasizes the intrinsic value of political participation, and a liberal view which emphasizes its instrumental importance. The chapter then explains how liberal states can try to promote the appropriate forms of citizenship virtues and practices. It also discusses the seedbeds of civic virtue, taking into account a variety of aspects of liberal society that can be seen as inculcating civic virtues, including the market, civic associations, and the family. It concludes with an analysis of the politics of civic republicanism.

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