John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr, and democratic virtue
I offer an interpretation of John Dewey and Reinhold Niebuhr that highlights the role of virtue in the visions of democracy that both writers articulated. Based on this interpretation, I argue that Dewey and Niebuhr both implied that virtue is necessary for democracy to thrive, despite the fact that...
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University of Iowa
2012
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Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6224 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7556&context=etd |