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Politicians as paragons of virtue

Liberalism and Ethical Exemplification in Public Life

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ID6293248
AuthorsMark Evans (0000-0002-9605-6417, Swansea University, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume9
Issue1
Pages51-69
Publication date2004-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1356931032000167472
OpenAlexW2004703843
LanguageEN
Citations received1

It is often claimed that liberals today advocate a politics which, as far as possible, eschews support for any particular ethical ideals of character. Among the considerations that may be adduced in support of this commitment is an ostensibly powerful resistance to any notion that politicians have a special responsibility to set ethical standards for those they represent. This article argues, however, that the idea of politicians as ‘ethical exemplars’ can be presented in a form to which liberals could in fact be consistently sympathetic. Minor though the idea's role in a liberal conception of politics may be, the argument in support of it highlights a little-noticed way in which the ethical-impartialist reading of ‘liberalism’ is impoverished

Argument (complex analysis · Classical liberalism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Exemplification · Ideology · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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