Virtudes e vícios da democracia
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2006-06
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Adriano Naves de Brito
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Democracy can be regarded, following Alexis de Tocquevilles
thoughts, from two complementary standpoints: the equality standpoint
– where equality is understood as a social condition; and the liberty standpoint
– 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´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.
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Democracia, Condições sociais, Ação política, Vícios, Virtudes, Democracy, Social conditions, Politic action, Vice, Virtue
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REIS, Helena Esser dos. Virtudes e vícios da democracia. Philósophos, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 1, p. 115-128, jan./jun. 2006. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/3710/3466>.