What if the Pious Don’t Want to Deliberate

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6352602
AutoresNicholas Tampio (0000-0001-7295-8486, Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen42
Número1
Páginas106-118
Fecha de publicación2014-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitical Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0090591713507866
OpenAlexW2153620220
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas9

What should political theorists do when they travel beyond the West and find that ordinary people do not want to reflect upon their political commitments? One option is to do rehabilitative political theory and argue that China and Egypt, say, already possess deliberative cultures. A second option is to maintain that China and Egypt favor different, and better, ideals than democratic deliberation. A third option, and the one that I endorse, is to promote Socratic ideals in universities around the world. As Plato recognized in the Republic, it is easier to teach students to love political debate than to change the habits of pious people such as Cephalus

China · Deliberation · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · SOCRATES · Socratic method · Socratic questioning · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory