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- Title
`The ambiguity of political virtue': A response to Wolgast.
- Authors
Levinson, Sanford
- Abstract
The article presents a response by Sanford Levinson to the (preceeding article containing) comments of Dr. Elizabeth Wolgast on the ambiguity of political virtue. Here Levinson addresses two different aspects of Wolgast's argument: the distinctions drawn when characterizing lawyers and politicians, and the plausibility of her critique of "role" morality and the alternative she suggests. Levinson explains why he finds a wholesale rejection of role morality to be unhelpful. His points of disagreement with Wolgast's theory are detailed. Levinson concludes that the degree of abstraction characterizing theories like Wolgast's is unhelpful and that more focus should be paid to stories and anecdotes from life.
- Subjects
WOLGAST, Elizabeth; LEGAL professions; POLITICIANS; JUDGMENT (Psychology); LAWYERS; LEVINSON, Sanford, 1941-; REPRESENTATIVE government; ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
Social Theory & Practice, 1991, Vol 17, Issue 2, p295
- ISSN
0037-802X
- Publication type
Article