DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES
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https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v11i1.3710Keywords:
democracia, condições sociais, ação política, vícios, virtudes.Abstract
Democracy can be regarded, following Alexis de Tocquevillesthoughts, from two complementary standpoints: the equality standpoint – where equality is understood as a social condition; and the liberty standpoint – understood as a political condition. However, he observes, democracy is not a priori what it should be, denunciating, in this way, the imbalance between equality and liberty, the greater the imbalance as poor are the public virtues. We intend to enroll in a debate involving ethics and politics, by considering vices and virtues inherent to democracy, analyzing Tocqueville´s ideas. We start examining the causes of vice and the possibility of virtue, as Tocqueville sees them, in order to, next, attack the relationship of ethics and politics.
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2008-04-05
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DOS REIS, Helena Esser. DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 1, p. 115–128, 2008. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v11i1.3710. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/3710. Acesso em: 6 dec. 2025.
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