February 5
Monthly Ethics Forum: Great Thinkers in the History of Democracy
The Democratic Soul: From Tocqueville to Emerson and Beyond
Mark Button, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Utah
2:30-3:45 p.m., Library Auditorium (LI 120)
(Part of the Utah Democracy Project)
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Dr. Button's overall research agenda is animated by an interest in the
ethical and political conditions of modern democratic citizenship. The
question that Button asks in nearly all of his work is: What are the
necessary preconditions for cultivating and sustaining a vibrant democratic
political society/culture? What moral, political, and institutional features
must be present in order to balance the normative commitment to democracy
with the fact of incommensurable value pluralism, and to balance the claims
of autonomy and individual liberty with the claims of civic obligation and
virtue? In general, how should late-modern political societies navigate the
complex matrix of multidimensional pluralism, liberalism, and democracy?
http://www.honors.utah.edu/?module=facultyDetails&personId=9969&orgId=267
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David R. Keller, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Study of Ethics
Utah Valley University
801.863.6363
http://ethicscenter.info/
