Toward a Niebuhrian Ethics of Democracy

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION THEOLOGY TODAY Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1177/00405736231190323
Bradley Shingleton
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This article proposes certain elements of an ethics of democracy based on the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr. It contends that Niebuhr's concept of democracy must be interpreted in light of his anthropology, and argues that his anthropology provides a broader and more suggestive basis for a contemporary democratic ethics than do his mid-century writings on democracy. The article identifies certain values as foundational for duties of a democratic ethics. These values ground three principal duties of a democratic ethics: a duty of civility, of deliberation, and of tolerance. The duties are derived from fundamental characteristics of human selfhood as Niebuhr conceived it, but they are elaborated here in ways more adequate to the contemporary situation.
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走向尼布里式的民主伦理学
本文以莱因霍尔德·尼布尔的著作为基础,提出民主伦理的若干要素。它认为,尼布尔的民主概念必须根据他的人类学来解释,并认为他的人类学为当代民主伦理提供了比他在上世纪中叶关于民主的著作更广泛和更具启发性的基础。这篇文章确定了作为民主伦理义务基础的某些价值观。这些价值观是民主伦理的三个主要义务的基础:文明的义务、深思熟虑的义务和宽容的义务。正如尼布尔所设想的那样,这些义务来源于人类自我的基本特征,但在这里,它们被以更适合当代情况的方式加以阐述。
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