The Nature of Liberal Civic Virtue

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Liberal democracy places a number of demands on its citizens, including accepting constitutional constraints on majorities, extending rights to people one disagrees with, and tolerating deep differences of belief and practice, to name a few. These dispositions need to be cultivated, and understanding what qualities citizens must possess to sustain a free liberal democratic society is an urgent and timely question that calls for rigorous research. What virtues do people living in a free, pluralistic, and self-governing society need to have, and what are their foundations in the liberal tradition? What is the relationship between liberal values (e.g., liberty, dignity, equality, pluralism) and the civic virtues those values require? What is specifically liberal about the demands that liberal...