Race , National Ideals , and Civic Virtue
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Civic virtue is generally understood as relating to a specific polity and in that way to be distinct from virtues appropriate to a human being as such, the subject matter of most "virtue theory." This conception does not rule out "universal" civic virtues-ones appropriate to membership in a "world community"-and some theorists speak of and advocate some form of such "world citizenship." Nevertheless, I will consider civic virtues in the context of an individual national political community, the United States in particular.
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