Monday, April 13, 2009

5 steps toward a Practical Philosophy?

In the last of today's chapters, Dagger begins shifting his focus toward the practical capabilities of republican liberalism. Dagger suggest new ways to foster citizenship (pg 98). Dagger goes on throughout the chapter to list five concepts that need some consideration/review. Those five concepts being size, stability, fairness, communication, and lastly participation. "Together they suggest the difficulty of the task in a world in which states are growing larger, populations more mobile, traditions less secure (pg 116). My question is why these five characteristics and not other, more, or less characteristics?

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