The Forming of a Civic Sensibility in Public Administration

The philosophy of Paul Ricoeur is offered as an argument for civic education to overcome intense preoccupation with economic activity, because of the need to properly relate politics to economics via ethics. Persons too concerned with economics will ignore their obligations to engage with one another politically. They become disabled from viewing one another as resources for both political and even for economic activity. Furthermore, they tend to regard one another's varying viewpoints as challenges to vibrant economic activity, so that diversity of viewpoints or diversity of experience is regarded as divisive, not as rich variations that come from commonalties and can contribute to a cohesive community. The problem is morphological: suspicions about diversity make conflict resolution difficult and they also make civic education difficult because suspicions about diversities endanger the equitable allocation of resources needed for widespread civic engagement

Argument (complex analysis · Civic engagement · Diversity (politics · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public good · Sensibility · Social science · Sociology · Viewpoints · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

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  Lenneal J Henderson•Administrative Theory & Praxis•2003

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  Margaret H Vickers•Administrative Theory & Praxis•2006

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