Episode 17: Is Civility a Cure for the Dysfunctions of Democracy?

21/03/2020 52 min
Episode 17: Is Civility a Cure for the Dysfunctions of Democracy?

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What do high levels of distrust and socioeconomic and political inequality portend for democracy and civility? In this episode we talk with Dr. Robert Talisse, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University about what civility is and why it fails. See the show notes with links mentioned in this episode at https://j.mu/news/civic/2020/03-21-democracy-matters-episode-17.shtml

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