DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES VIRTUDES E VÍCIUS DA DEMOCRACIA
Democracy can be regarded, following Alexis de Tocquevilles<br />thoughts, from two complementary standpoints: the equality standpoint &ndash; where equality is understood as a social condition; and the liberty standpoint &ndash; understood as a political condition. How...
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| description | Democracy can be regarded, following Alexis de Tocquevilles<br />thoughts, from two complementary standpoints: the equality standpoint &ndash; where equality is understood as a social condition; and the liberty standpoint &ndash; understood as a political condition. However, he observes, democracy is not a priori what it should be, denunciating, in this way, the imbalance between equality and liberty, the greater the imbalance as poor are the public virtues. We intend to enroll in a debate involving ethics and politics, by considering vices and virtues inherent to democracy, analyzing Tocqueville&acute;s ideas. We start examining the causes of vice and the possibility of virtue, as Tocqueville sees them, in order to, next, attack the relationship of ethics and politics.<br>A democracia pode ser compreendida, segundo Al&eacute;xis de Tocqueville, a partir de duas id&eacute;ias complementares: a condi&ccedil;&atilde;o social de igualdade e a condi&ccedil;&atilde;o pol&iacute;tica de liberdade. Entretanto, observa, a democracia n&atilde;o &eacute; a priori o que deveria ser, denunciando, deste modo, a exist&ecirc;ncia de um descompasso entre a igualdade e a liberdade que cresce na mesma medida em que esmorecem as virtudes p&uacute;blicas. Visando contribuir com a discuss&atilde;o acerca das rela&ccedil;&otilde;es entre &eacute;tica e pol&iacute;tica, pretendo examinar virtudes e v&iacute;cios inerentes ao Estado democr&aacute;tico, a partir da an&aacute;lise das id&eacute;ias de Tocqueville. Meu interesse ser&aacute;, em primeiro lugar, compreender<br />as causas dos v&iacute;cios e a possibilidade das virtudes nas democracias, para, ent&atilde;o, discutir a rela&ccedil;&atilde;o entre a &eacute;tica e a pol&iacute;tica. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9f7e465c175743059787a9162f1edd4a2022-12-22T02:31:03ZdeuUniversidade Federal de GoiásPhilósophos : Revista de Filosofia1982-29282008-04-0111111512810.5216/phi.v11i1.3710DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES VIRTUDES E VÍCIUS DA DEMOCRACIAHelena Esser dos ReisDemocracy can be regarded, following Alexis de Tocquevilles<br />thoughts, from two complementary standpoints: the equality standpoint &ndash; where equality is understood as a social condition; and the liberty standpoint &ndash; understood as a political condition. However, he observes, democracy is not a priori what it should be, denunciating, in this way, the imbalance between equality and liberty, the greater the imbalance as poor are the public virtues. We intend to enroll in a debate involving ethics and politics, by considering vices and virtues inherent to democracy, analyzing Tocqueville&acute;s ideas. We start examining the causes of vice and the possibility of virtue, as Tocqueville sees them, in order to, next, attack the relationship of ethics and politics.<br>A democracia pode ser compreendida, segundo Al&eacute;xis de Tocqueville, a partir de duas id&eacute;ias complementares: a condi&ccedil;&atilde;o social de igualdade e a condi&ccedil;&atilde;o pol&iacute;tica de liberdade. Entretanto, observa, a democracia n&atilde;o &eacute; a priori o que deveria ser, denunciando, deste modo, a exist&ecirc;ncia de um descompasso entre a igualdade e a liberdade que cresce na mesma medida em que esmorecem as virtudes p&uacute;blicas. Visando contribuir com a discuss&atilde;o acerca das rela&ccedil;&otilde;es entre &eacute;tica e pol&iacute;tica, pretendo examinar virtudes e v&iacute;cios inerentes ao Estado democr&aacute;tico, a partir da an&aacute;lise das id&eacute;ias de Tocqueville. Meu interesse ser&aacute;, em primeiro lugar, compreender<br />as causas dos v&iacute;cios e a possibilidade das virtudes nas democracias, para, ent&atilde;o, discutir a rela&ccedil;&atilde;o entre a &eacute;tica e a pol&iacute;tica.http://www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/philosophos/article/view/3710democracia, condições sociais, ação política, vícios, virtudes. |
| spellingShingle | Helena Esser dos Reis DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES VIRTUDES E VÍCIUS DA DEMOCRACIA Philósophos : Revista de Filosofia democracia, condições sociais, ação política, vícios, virtudes. |
| title | DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES VIRTUDES E VÍCIUS DA DEMOCRACIA |
| title_full | DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES VIRTUDES E VÍCIUS DA DEMOCRACIA |
| title_fullStr | DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES VIRTUDES E VÍCIUS DA DEMOCRACIA |
| title_full_unstemmed | DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES VIRTUDES E VÍCIUS DA DEMOCRACIA |
| title_short | DEMOCRACIES VIRTUES AND VICES VIRTUDES E VÍCIUS DA DEMOCRACIA |
| title_sort | democracies virtues and vices virtudes e vicius da democracia |
| topic | democracia, condições sociais, ação política, vícios, virtudes. |
| url | http://www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/philosophos/article/view/3710 |
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