Christopher Beem, author of The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy; Richard Haass, author of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens; and Lorraine Pangle, author of Reason and Character: The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy, discuss the concepts of civic virtue and citizenship in democratic societies. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
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Christopher Beem is the managing director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, where he is also an associate research professor and affiliate faculty with the Rock Ethics Institute. He is the author or co-editor of several books, including The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy.
Richard Haass is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served in the Pentagon, State Department, and White House under four presidents, Democrat and Republican alike. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens.
Lorraine Pangle is professor of government and co-director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including The Political Philosophy of Ben Franklin and Reason and Character: The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
Additional Resources
- Richard Haass, The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
- Christopher Beem, The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy
- Christopher Sheilds, "Aristotle," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Robert Pasnau, "Thomas Aquinas," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Lorraine Pangle, Reason and Character: The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy
- Lorraine and Thomas Pangle, The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders
- Lorraine Pangle, The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin
- Scotty Hendricks, "Ben Franklin's 13 Guidelines for Living a Good Life," Big Think
- Xenophon, Memorabilia
- Eve Browning, "Xenophon," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Federalist 10
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- George Washington, First Annual Message to Congress (1790)
- Adam Harris, "George Washington's Broken Dream of a National University," The Atlantic
- National Constitution Center, "Lessons from Tocqueville in America," Live at the National Constitution Center
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