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Virtue Reversed: Principal Argumentative Vices In Political Debate, Christian Kock
Virtue Reversed: Principal Argumentative Vices In Political Debate, Christian Kock
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Contributing to an understanding of the true virtues of argumentation, this paper sketches and exemplifies a theoretically reasoned but simple typology of argumentative vices or ‘malpractices’ that are rampant in political debate in modern democracies. The typology reflects, in negative, a set of argumentative norms, thus making a bid for something that civic instruction might profitably teach students at all levels about deliberative democracy.
When Politics Trump Argumentation: Financial Literacy Education Policy, Laura Elizabeth Pinto
When Politics Trump Argumentation: Financial Literacy Education Policy, Laura Elizabeth Pinto
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This paper analyzes a corpus of political rhetoric to identify the rationale for Ontario’s financial literacy education (FLE) policy decisions that came about in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. The complex politics of FLE were shaped and legitimized by special-interest coalitions’ mobilization of power, characterized by unsubstantiated claims about its efficacy. The rhetoric amounted to ‘truthiness’ over argumentation through the neglect of empirical evidence.