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philos can be conditional or even selfish.

Rushworth Kidder, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics and author of Moral Courage and How Good People Make Tough Choices,

Where Balibar, as a consequence, sees our inconvertible cruelty as always about to undermine our politics, and our confidence in politics, Wendy Brown sees neoliberalism – which she defines in Undoing the Demos as ‘a peculiar form of reason that configures all aspects of existence in economic terms’ – as ‘quietly undoing basic elements of democracy

All agree that liberal ideals of freedom, equality, the rule of law, representative government and individual rights can only be defended with the help of social virtues such as fraternity, duty, loyalty, humility and honour.

Those general rules can mute our self-interested passions and give our conscience a fighting chance against our self-love. We see people choosing a path of behavior, and we notice how that behavior is judged by others. If it is judged negatively, that encourages us to avoid it. If it is judged positively, we are encouraged to engage in that action

Globally, today, the urge to moral idealism and a new ethos of responsibility in civil – that is non-violent – society may well represent the migration of the transcendent regarding which Weber’s colleague, Georg Simmel, was so persuaded. What Václav Havel dubbed the ‘politics of the anti-political’ has become an enormous though amorphous, weakly i

le manque de rationalité des individus, qui, étant encore esclaves de leurs passions, suivront la loi plus par peur de la punition que par adhésion profonde. Or, si « l’obéissance extérieure » est plus forte que « l’activité spirituelle interne », pour reprendre ses propres expressions, nos démocraties risquent de s’affaiblir. C’est pourquoi il rap

it is oppression, and not the extent of the executive power, which excites their hostility, and they attack the former without perceiving how nearly it is connected with the latter.