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Aristotle teaches that justice means giving people what they deserve. And in order to determine who deserves what, we have to determine what virtues are worthy of honor and reward. Aristotle maintains that we can’t figure out what a just constitution is without first reflecting on the most desirable way of life. For him, law can’t be neutral on
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When we talk about justice today, we almost always find ourselves talking about rights we believe are entrenched in nature and have been enshrined in our founding documents. This language reflects a liberal conception of human action and interaction, casting us as rational agents who reach agreements with one another through calculation and
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The necessity of morally engaged politics to counter extremism and how to respond to toxic polarization without de-escalating.
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But that's what's happened. That's why we have the dangerous mix of fundamentalism and hyper-nationalism that we see today.
It's because we need a morally more engaged way of contending with our disagreements and a morally more explicit way of deliberating as citizens about what it is we share and what the implications of that
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