1 Reconstructing the Virtues : the Ethos of Deliberative Democracy
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Virtues, or habituated excellences of character, have been understood as having important roles in political regimes since the very beginnings of Western political thought. Across remarkable variation in theorists’ contexts and perspectives, the virtues are considered central to the flourishing of regimes beyond otherwise abstract norms and formal institutions. In Greek thought, for example, ethics (ethike), habit (ethos), and
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