Andrew Aberdein recently explored whether Aristotle held a (proto-)virtue argumentation theory, which would evaluate good argument in terms of the arguers engaged virtuously. admits, however, that connections between virtue, character, and are scarce within Aristotle's works. Accordingly, here Cassie Finley approaches this question from different angle, comparing concepts dialectic rhetoric wit...

Abstract Situationists maintain that psychological evidence (e.g., the well-known Good Samaritan experiment) challenges a key assumption of virtue ethics, namely virtuous people display cross-situational consistency behavior. This situationist critique is frequently thought to pose serious threat ethics. Virtue ethicists have so far mainly put forward conceptual rather than empirical arguments ...

Introduction 1. Why smart communities are important and how they work Distributed governance and multiple accountabilities Milieu and discovery Collective intelligence Social learning 2. How can one make communities smarter Agenda for civic architects Agenda for civic engineers Agenda for civic entrepreneurs, D. Agenda for practice-enhancing governance Conclusion Notes for an address to the sym...

We use information on second-generation migrants to study the existence of a cultural component on the formation process of noncognitive skills and its effect on education and employment outcomes. Our measures of noncognitive skills include: personality traits that children are encouraged to learn and civic capital. Individuals whose cultural heritage places a lower value on child qualities pos...

This article moves the debate on the integrative mechanisms of civil society from the study of individual civic engagement and associational life to the study of interorganizational civic networks. Drawing upon evidence from Bristol and Glasgow, we identify a polycentric model of civic networks, based on horizontal solidarity and generalized reciprocity, in which organizations engage in micro r...