Civility is a concept that seems to point toward both the highest aspirations and the deepest
confusion. It is often conceived by theorists as a normative ideal of political ethics; as, for …

Given the complexity of individual life, law, and public policy, we each hold a multiplicity of
values, conceptions of what the good life is and should be, beliefs about factual matters, and …

Civility has been a perennial concern of philosophers. Philosophers have disagreed,
however, on what civility is, how important it is, and how norms of civility change. The …

This paper argues that political civility is actually an illusionistic ideal and that, as such,
realism counsels that we acknowledge both its promise and peril. Political civility is, I will …

While politics and ethics are typically held to be distinct modes of judgment, that distinction
often breaks down rather quickly in both theory and practice. This article focuses on one …

This paper makes the case for a revision of contemporary forms of political realism in
political theory. I argue that contemporary realists have gone awry in increasingly centring …

CENTRAL to the understanding of any democratic and well-functioning society is a focus on
shared norms of civic responsibility and public participation in the polity and civic life. In …

In today's political climate, civility is under fire across the political spectrum. On the Right,
Donald Trump's abrasive discourse and epithets seem to have set the tone for a posturing …

According to what has recently been labeled 'political realism'in political theory,'political
moralists' such as Rawls and Dworkin misconstrue the political domain by presuming that …

The idea of civil society has long been central to the Western liberal-democratic tradition,
where it has been seen as a crucial site for the development and pursuit of basic liberal …